Course title

Instructor

Zhu, Leqi associate professor

Instructor’s profile

Dr. Zhu, Leqi obtained his Ph.D degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research interests are formal syntax, especially light verb syntax of Chinese; Chomskyan philosophy and linguistics;

Course goals

This course aims to build up knowledge in generative grammar based on the Minimalist Program.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include

Morpho-syntactic;

Theta Roles & Argument;

Feature Checking and Merge;

X-bar Theory;

VP Shell

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Assessment

Assignment and course paper

Reference books

1.Chomsky, N. 1957. Syntactic Structures.

The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers.

2. Carnie, A. 2002. Syntax: a generative introduction. Massachusetts: Blackwell.

3. Radford, A. 1997. Syntax: a minimalist introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4. Adger, D. 2003. Core Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Working language

English and Chinese