Syntax: Introduction to Sentential Structure

Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLX 250, or consent of instructor; Undergraduate Corequisites: CASLX 322. (Students must also register for required co-req CASLX 322). Introduction to syntax as an object of inquiry. Students build an increasingly sophisticated model of syntactic knowledge to account for data from English and other languages, constructing and evaluating alternative hypotheses about how sentence structure works.