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Negation and Negative Polarity Items in Natural Language
Prof. Rajesh Kumar · IIT Madras
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- Introduction
- Goals and Objectives
- Fundamentals of the Course
- Language and Linguistics
- Aspects of Language
- Language of Continuum
- I - Language and E - Language
- Language Acquisition
- Learning and Acquisition
- Structure of Language (Sounds)
- Vocal Apparatus and Salient Features of Sounds
- Places and Manners of Articulations of Sounds
- Phonotactic Rules and Word Formation
- Making of a Word: Rules and Constraints
- What Makes a Sentence?
- Components of a Sentence
- Grammaticality vs Acceptability
- Subject and Predicate
- Verb and Object
- Phrase Structure
- X Bar Theory
- Specifier and Complement
- Complements and Adjuncts
- Components of a Verb Phrase
- Categories and Selectional Restrictions on Verbs
- Thematic Relations
- Concept of Case in Natural Language
- Morphological and Abstract Case
- Structural Case
- Exceptional Case Marking
- Movement (Displacement of Constituents) in Natural Language
- Motivation for Movement of Language Constituents
- Movement of Constituents in Interrogative Sentences
- Displacement of Noun Phrases in Passive Constructions
- NP Movement and Raising of Constituents
- Noun Phrase Interpretations in Binding Theory
- Principles of Binding Theory
- Constraints on Displacement of Constituents
- Negation in the Structure of Language
- Negation and Negative Polarity Items in Natural Language
- Understanding Cognition and Pragmatics in the Structure of Language