Syntactic Typology

2 or 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200B. Current results in word-order universals; genetic classification of world’s languages; cross-language properties of specific construction types, including relative clauses, passives, positive and negative coreference systems, agreement systems, deixis systems, and types of sentence complements. S/U or letter grading.