Instructor(s)
Prof. David Pesetsky
MIT Course Number
24.960
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course presents a comparison of different proposed architectures for the syntax module of grammar. The subject traces several themes across a wide variety of approaches, with emphasis on testable differences among models. Models discussed include ancient and medieval proposals, structuralism, early generative grammar, generative semantics, government-binding theory/minimalism, LFG, HPSG, TAG, functionalist perspectives and others.