LING 591

Fall 2020 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 24-Dec 9

Seminar in Linguistic Analysis

Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Discussion of advanced topics of current interest.

May be repeated with approval. Prerequisite: LING 501 and LING 502.

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LING 591 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	45425	Online Lecture	JM	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	n.a.	MacDonald, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Section Info: Topic: Null Subjects In this seminar, we will look into the syntactic phenomenon of what can broadly be called null subjects, a property whereby subjects of a sentence need not be pronounced. Recent research identifies subclasses of null subject languages which show a different set of properties, one of which is the so-called consistent null subject languages, Spanish, Italian and European Portuguese being representative. A second subclass is sometimes called radical pro-drop languages, Korean and Japanese being representative. A third is often referred to as partial null subject languages, which include Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish and Marathi. We will approach these classes theoretically and see how the syntactic generative approach to universals and parametric variation has changed from the Principle and Parameters era (Chomsky 1981) to the more modern generative approach under Minimalism (Chomsky 1995 et seq.).