Meeting time. Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-5:00, COM 217.

Instructor. Paul Hagstrom, 621 Commonwealth Ave., room 105. Email: hagstrom@bu.edu (likely to get a quick response). Phone: 617–353–6220 (x3–6220). Office hours: T 10:30-11:30, W 2-3, R 5-6.

Prerequisites. CAS LX 250 (Introduction to Linguistics), or consent of instructor.

Course description:

Introduction to the logical structure and organization of language and to generative grammar. Application of principles of syntactic analysis to students’ own and other languages through data-oriented problems from different language types.

Course Requirements. Homework. Weekly homework assignments. Midterm exam. There will be an in-class midterm on Thursday, October 14. Final exam. There will be a final exam, on Wednesday December 15, 3pm, in COM 217.

Homework. Whenever feasible, homework (or project proposals, or final papers) can be emailed to me at hagstrom@bu.edu. Be aware that if you use special fonts, they will sometimes not come through. PDF and text-only documents are safest, but Microsoft Word, RTF, Postscript, LaTeX files will work. Please don’t send a WordPerfect file, I have never managed to find a way to open them properly. Or, you know, just hand in a paper copy. If I can’t read the file you send me, it doesn’t really count as having been handed in, so if there’s a risk of a font problem, try to send it to me early so I can verify that I can read the file.

Readings. There is a textbook for this course (David Adger, 2003, Core Syntax).

 

CAS Student Academic Conduct Code. As a member of a CAS course, it is essential that you read and adhere to the CAS Student Academic Conduct Code. In particular, several types of plagiarism (any attempt to represent the work of another as your own) are defined by this academic conduct code. You can read the CAS Academic Conduct Code online, or get a copy in CAS 105.