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Principles and Parameters in Natural Language

Prof. Rajesh Kumar · IIT Madras

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Principles and Parameters in Natural Language

  1. Introduction of the Course Video
  2. What is linguistics? What is Language? Video
  3. Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect Video
  4. E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system Video
  5. Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind Video
  6. How do we learn language? Video
  7. Language Acquisition Video
  8. Innateness: Some Essential Concepts Video
  9. Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds Video
  10. Sounds (Vocal Apparatus) Video
  11. Places and Manners of Articulation Video
  12. Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules Video
  13. Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural) Video
  14. Sentence: An Introduction Video
  15. Making of a Sentence (Components) Video
  16. Grammaticality and Acceptability Video
  17. Subject and Verb in a Sentence Video
  18. Sentence: Objects and Verbs Video
  19. Phrase Structure Video
  20. X-Bar Theory Video
  21. Specifier and Complement Video
  22. Complements and Adjuncts Video
  23. VP Components Video
  24. Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs Video
  25. Thematic Relations Video
  26. Case Video
  27. Morphological and Abstract Case Video
  28. Structural Case Video
  29. Exceptional Case Marking Video
  30. Movement Video
  31. Motivations for Movement Video
  32. Questions and Movement Video
  33. Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik Video
  34. Passives and NP Movement Video
  35. NP Movement and Raising Video
  36. Binding Theory and NP Interpretations Video
  37. Principles of Binding Theory Video
  38. Constraints on Movements Video
  39. Structure of Language and Negation Video
  40. Negation and Negative Polarity Items Video
  41. Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics Video

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Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Rajesh Kumar
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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