Course description⌗

Grammatical features, such as number, gender, person and tense, play a central role in all contemporary approaches to syntax. This seminar focuses on some of the central issues related to features in syntactic theory, such as: analyzing agreement and its relation to other components of the grammar; feature geometries and asymmetries in feature values; the role of morphosyntactic features at the syntax-semantics interface; and alternative views of the notion ‘feature’ itself and the kinds of feature values allowed by the grammar of human languages.

This seminar will be taught during the academic year 2022-23 as a hybrid (half synchronous, half asynchronous) course.

  • Prerequisite: 37-287 or (for MA/PhD students) 37-987. This course is open to students at all levels (BA, MA and PhD).

More information and course materials will be available throught the course website on Moodle.