Course description⌗

This seminar surveys the major questions in the study of noun phrase structure over the last few decades, with a focus on the following topics: The internal structure of the noun phrase; functional categories and their roles; Universal principles and cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of the noun phrase; Complex noun phrases, especially genitive constructions; Grammatical features in the noun phrase (person, number, gender, definiteness etc); The syntactic role and grammatical properties of quantifiers, numerals and semi-lexical nominal heads; The syntax of pronouns and names. Lessons involve presentation of linguistic phenomena from a variety of languages; reading selected articles; critical discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of various analyses proposed in the literature, and online assignments and forum discussion of their significance and possible analyses.

This seminar was taught during the academic year 2020-21 as a fully online (asynchronous) course.