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The course aims to acquaint the studenst with some of the core principles in the morphology and syntax (and its interfaces with semantics) of natural languages, helping us understand grammar as part of the language faculty. The student learns how to apply these principles in analysing divers material from a range of languages (contrasting them with Dutch), using different empirical sources (aming which corpora, databases, grammars, etc).
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This course furthers your knowledge of grammatical theorizing, building on introductory linguistics courses. It focuses on methodological rigor, and addresses language variation from a typological perspective.
Morphological and syntactic research in the last decennia has convincingly proven that it is possible to explain language phenomena in a wide variety of languages with a limited set of abstract principles interacting in a way that one can describe as ‘unity in diversity’. Using Larson’s book, we will show how syntax (and morphology) provide on the one hand an instrument for the principles of scientific theorizing and scientific thought, while on the other hand show how one can apply these tools to address language variation, and can steer research in acquisition and psycholinguistics.
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