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160137 SE Seminar in this subject area (2017S)
Universalien und Variation in Satzeinbettungen
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Sa 04.02.2017 08:00 to Su 19.02.2017 12:00
- Registration is open from Tu 21.02.2017 15:00 to Fr 10.03.2017 15:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 10.03.2017 15:00
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: German, English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 07.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 14.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 21.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 28.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 04.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 25.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 02.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 09.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 16.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 23.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 30.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 13.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 20.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Tuesday 27.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
In this seminar, we investigate the syntactic and semantic distribution of verb — complement clauses from a comparative perspective. The leading observation is that there is a cross-linguistically stable split of embedded clauses (both finite and non-finite) into three types of complements (propositional attitude, future, and tenseless complements) which display different degrees of complexity, as observable through morphological, syntactic, semantic, and processing differences. Among the phenomena discussed are: tense and aspect restrictions, the interpretation and distribution of embedded subjects, shifted indexicals, transparency effects, ECM, the A/A'-distinction, syntactic domains/phases, and the distribution and relevance of (non-)finiteness. The starting hypothesis we will pursue is that there is a scale of clausehood observable in all languages, which reflects an implicational hierarchy of minimal clause size as determined by an interplay of syntactic and semantic properties of embedding configurations. One of the goals which we will work towards collaboratively is an empirical broadening of the knowledge base of cross-linguistic patterns of complementation by combining semantic and syntactic research to arrive at a general cognitive theory of complementation.
Assessment and permitted materials
Lesen der Literatur und Mitarbeit
Referat mit Handout
Schriftliche Arbeit
Referat mit Handout
Schriftliche Arbeit
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Grundlegende Kenntnisse der Grammatiktheorie sind von Vorteil.
Examination topics
Reading list
Association in the course directory
MA1-M3, MA1-APM4B-5
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