# Principles and Parameters in Natural Language

- Institution: IIT Madras
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Rajesh Kumar
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106083)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106083)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [Introduction of the Course](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/da12b646f645) (Video)
2. [What is linguistics? What is Language?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/017e68009ced) (Video)
3. [Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/dea004811693) (Video)
4. [E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/1ea2332ac440) (Video)
5. [Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/d34e161116d4) (Video)
6. [How do we learn language?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/bf7fe579912c) (Video)
7. [Language Acquisition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/48e148d5986f) (Video)
8. [Innateness: Some Essential Concepts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/c2675a5c353a) (Video)
9. [Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/9a614041708b) (Video)
10. [Sounds (Vocal Apparatus)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/af6d95026562) (Video)
11. [Places and Manners of Articulation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/d1d77a95a715) (Video)
12. [Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/51da9e84e233) (Video)
13. [Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/0519fcec3ba5) (Video)
14. [Sentence: An Introduction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/457a0906e96e) (Video)
15. [Making of a Sentence (Components)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/e61c33e3369d) (Video)
16. [Grammaticality and Acceptability](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/e0cd429a5b91) (Video)
17. [Subject and Verb in a Sentence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/85721b32f432) (Video)
18. [Sentence: Objects and Verbs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/744b57a4dd69) (Video)
19. [Phrase Structure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/5857b77a8d44) (Video)
20. [X-Bar Theory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/f3d7d59f890d) (Video)
21. [Specifier and Complement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/48780a000d9d) (Video)
22. [Complements and Adjuncts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/e4a9c8d5638b) (Video)
23. [VP Components](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/672de5530ba9) (Video)
24. [Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/11baf1d3163e) (Video)
25. [Thematic Relations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/5d2a9e7ea65b) (Video)
26. [Case](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/eac6f019a23e) (Video)
27. [Morphological and Abstract Case](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/872f07824f71) (Video)
28. [Structural Case](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/79e99e81de68) (Video)
29. [Exceptional Case Marking](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/026d24d9fd32) (Video)
30. [Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/b61d4e301974) (Video)
31. [Motivations for Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/fd92cf3e445b) (Video)
32. [Questions and Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/b61fde6db2a2) (Video)
33. [Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/a379539e2523) (Video)
34. [Passives and NP Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/1db913802477) (Video)
35. [NP Movement and Raising](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/9d22f905896a) (Video)
36. [Binding Theory and NP Interpretations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/4f902b7ef0d8) (Video)
37. [Principles of Binding Theory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/0ace2f8427e7) (Video)
38. [Constraints on Movements](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/ac47b53fa8e8) (Video)
39. [Structure of Language and Negation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/d6c96022ea44) (Video)
40. [Negation and Negative Polarity Items](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/a116e8a9dbd2) (Video)
41. [Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106083/b8673d4f8925) (Video)