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Lecture 39 of 41Principles and Parameters in Natural Language
Structure of Language and Negation
Prof. Rajesh Kumar · IIT Madras
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All the lectures
- Introduction of the Course
- What is linguistics? What is Language?
- Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect
- E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system
- Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind
- How do we learn language?
- Language Acquisition
- Innateness: Some Essential Concepts
- Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds
- Sounds (Vocal Apparatus)
- Places and Manners of Articulation
- Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules
- Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural)
- Sentence: An Introduction
- Making of a Sentence (Components)
- Grammaticality and Acceptability
- Subject and Verb in a Sentence
- Sentence: Objects and Verbs
- Phrase Structure
- X-Bar Theory
- Specifier and Complement
- Complements and Adjuncts
- VP Components
- Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs
- Thematic Relations
- Case
- Morphological and Abstract Case
- Structural Case
- Exceptional Case Marking
- Movement
- Motivations for Movement
- Questions and Movement
- Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik
- Passives and NP Movement
- NP Movement and Raising
- Binding Theory and NP Interpretations
- Principles of Binding Theory
- Constraints on Movements
- Structure of Language and Negation
- Negation and Negative Polarity Items
- Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics