Spring 2010

LIN 391 • English Syntax

Course Description

The primary goal of this course is to give you a framework for discovering, organizing, and expanding your knowledge of English syntax. As we discuss a variety of important English syntactic constructions (for example, free relatives, indirect questions, infinitival complements, passives, etc.), we will also introduce linguistic concepts that are important in the description of all languages. In sum, we will have the two goals of (i) understanding the structure of English syntax and (ii) acquiring basic tools of syntactic analysis that can be applied to any language.

Texts

C. L. Baker, English Syntax.

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