Formal analysis of a selected language family

The primary goal of this course is to familiarize the students with the most relevant issues of current linguistic investigations of the selected language family (e.g. Germanic or Romance languages). Before the start of the intensive course, students must read and work through the required literature on their own. This literature includes scientific articles that will be discussed during the course.
The acquired competences are:
-Ability to critically think about a given linguistic topic and finding theoretically relevant data
-Ability to solve specific theoretical linguistic problems.
Lectures are organized as a weekly or biweekly intensive course.

Introduction to syntax, Introduction to phonology, Introduction to semantics

Results of the current linguistic investigations by the worldwide known linguists.

-Knowledge of current topics and problems in comparative linguistics, specifically in some domain of grammar (e.g. syntax) of a selected language family.
-Understanding the differences in manifestation of the universal grammatical principles in a concrete language or language family
-Experience with working with non-native language data, also with speakers of a selected language

• Vezana na konkretno vsebino predmeta - članki iz jezikoslovnih znanstvenih revij – Linguistic Inquiry Catalogue E-version E-version, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory E-version, Lingua Catalogue E-version, Language Catalogue E-version, Theoretical Linguistics Catalogue E-version, The Linguistic Review Catalogue E-version .

Additional:

• Chomsky, Noam. 1981. Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris. Catalogue E-version
• Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The minimalist program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press. Catalogue E-version
• Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. In Ken Hale: A life in language, ed. Michael Kenstowicz, 1-50. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.

• Active participation at the lectures (50%) • final project on the topic connected with the course content (50%). During the intensive course students present their own research on the topic of the seminar.

Associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica.