SYNTAX

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: LINGUIS 101 or 301 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and identify certain cross-linguistic universals and points of variation in the syntax of human languages. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize and explain some common theoretical analyses of core syntactic data. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply knowledge of syntactic theory and logical reasoning to interpret and discuss the relevance of novel syntactic data to familiar theories. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Formulate a research question in syntax and discover existing research on a selected topic. Audience: Graduate 5. Summarize and critically evaluate research in syntax. Audience: Graduate 6. Synthesize and relate information across various sources. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and identify certain cross-linguistic universals and points of variation in the syntax of human languages. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Summarize and explain some common theoretical analyses of core syntactic data. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Apply knowledge of syntactic theory and logical reasoning to interpret and discuss the relevance of novel syntactic data to familiar theories. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Formulate a research question in syntax and discover existing research on a selected topic. Audience: Graduate 5. Summarize and critically evaluate research in syntax. Audience: Graduate 6. Synthesize and relate information across various sources. Audience: Graduate