The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course continues the study of syntactic structure, progressing seamlessly from work covered in LING2002. The course investigates ways in progressing seamlessly from work covered in LING2002. The course investigates ways in which properties of human language are explained within a theoretical framework, and emphasizes that data are meaningless in the absence of a theory. Using a Transformational Generative model, the course investigates how to account for transformations such as head-to-head movement and phrasal movement, and crucially, the restrictions on movement. This is presented as a fairly complete and simple system, laying the theoretical foundation for further explorations.