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160119 SE BA Seminar 2 (2020S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Deutsch, Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 05.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 19.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 26.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 02.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 23.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 30.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 07.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 14.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 28.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 04.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 18.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Donnerstag 25.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar is aimed at students who want to write their BA thesis on a topic in theoretical linguistics. Though its thematic focus is intended to be on agreement and formal features, we will try to tailor it to the needs and wishes of seminar participants. The overall goal is to explore the formal mechanisms by which agreement relations involving phi-features (person, number, gender) are derived. The empirical heart of the course will consist in discussing various agreement phenomena across languages, such as object agreement in Hungarian, 'quirky' agreement in Icelandic, context-sensitive agreement (e.g. in languages like Georgian or Nishnaabemwin), PCC (person case constraint) phenomena, the relationship between case and agreement, as well as the issue of variation concerning all these phenomena. Naturally a concomitant complexity of problems that will need to be addressed in some detail bears on issues relating to formal features in syntax, such as what the relationships between them are, what governs their grouping into larger structures, and how the inventory of features in a given language is determined.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

[Edited to reflect the situation due to COVID-19] Students are expected to do the readings assigned on a weekly basis before coming to (the virtual) class, come to (the virtual) class, participate actively by asking and answering questions, make a (virtual) presentation with a handout (a handout is sufficient), and write their BA thesis.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students have a command of the literature on (the typology of) agreement phenomena and (main) analyses of those discussed in class, and a deepened knowledge of the formal mechanisms by which agreement relations involving formal features are derived.

Prüfungsstoff

All of the topics discussed in class.

Literatur

(Selection, to be adjusted)
Adger, David, and Daniel Harbour. 2007. Syntax and syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint. Syntax 10:2-37.
Bárány, András. 2017. Person, Case, and Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Inverse Agreement and Global Case Splits. Oxford: OUP.
Bejar, Susana. 2003. Phi-syntax: A theory of agreement. Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto.
Bejar, Susana and Milan Rezac. 2009. Cyclic Agree. Linguistic Inquiry 40 (1):35-73.
Bhatt, Rajesh. 2006. Long-distance agreement in Hindi-Urdu. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23: 757-807.
Boeckx, Cedric. 2000. Quirky agreement. Studia Linguistica 54:354-380.
Bonet, Eulalia. 1991. Morphology after syntax: Pronominal Clitics in Romance. Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Cardinaletti, Anna and Starke, Michal. 1999. The typology of structural deficiency: A case study of the three classes of pronouns. In Henk van Riemsdijk (ed.), Eurotyp. Volume 5/Part 1: Clitics in the Languages of Europe 145-234. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Collins, Christopher and Paul Postal. 2012. Imposters: A Study of Pronominal Agreement. Cambridge, MIT Press.
Delancey, Scott. 1981. An interpretation of split ergativity and related patterns. Language 57:626-657.
Daniel Harbour, David Adger and Susana Bejar (eds). 2008. Phi theory: Phi-features across modules and interfaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harley, Heidi and Elizabeth Ritter. 2002. Person and number in pronouns: A feature-geometric analysis. Language 78:482-526.
Nevins, Andrew. 2007. The representation of third-person and its consequences for person-case effects. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25:273-313.
Nichols, Lynn. 2001. The syntactic basis of referential hierarchy phenomena: Clues from languages with and without morphological case. Lingua 111:515-537.
Ormazabal, Javier and Juan Romero. 2007. Agreement restrictions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 25:315-347.
Pancheva, Roumyana & Maria Luisa Zubizarreta. 2018. The Person Case Constraint: the syntactic encoding of perspective. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36:1291–1337.
Polinsky, Maria and Eric Potsdam. 2001. Long-distance agreement and topic in Tsez. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19:583-646.
Preminger, Omer. 2014. Agreement and its failures. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 68. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Starke, Michael. 2001. Move Dissolves into Merge: a Theory of Locality. PhD dissertation. University of Geneva.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA-M11

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:20