Syntactic locality - AAA500188

• Anglický název: Syntactic locality
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky (21-UAJD)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2024
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 5
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neomezen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: doc. Mgr. Radek Šimík, Ph.D.

Anotace

This seminar is concerned with the distance between two elements of a syntactic relation - called syntactic locality. In the sentence "Who brought the flowers?" all syntactic relations are local in the sense that they are realized within a single clause. In the sentence "Who do you think brought the flowers?" the subject interrogative pronoun "who" is in a long-distance relation to its predicate "brought (the flowers)" because the subject is realized in a different clause than its predicate. In the seminar, we investigate the distance that a syntactic relation can span and the various limits posed on the distance. Syntactic locality is affected by a multitude of factors - syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, information structural, and cognitive. There has been a lively debate - often based experimental data - as to which factors are crucial in which cases. Syntactic locality thus gives students a great chance of getting acquainted with various approaches to syntax - generative and cognitive - as well as with experimental approaches to syntax.

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

Cíl předmětu

Working with the empirical area of syntactic locality, the seminar gives students a chance of getting acquainted with various approaches to syntax - generative and cognitive - as well as with experimental approaches to syntax. The particular goals are:

• learn about different types of syntactic islands and thereby
• learn more about syntax and syntactic relations,
• learn about different types of theories designed to explain islands and syntactic locality,
• learn about methods of testing particular predictions of the theories.

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

Literatura

Foundational

Ross, John. 1967. Constraints on variables in syntax. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD dissertation. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15166

Erteschik-Shir, Nomi. 1973. On the nature of island constraints. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD dissertation. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12991

Rizzi, Luigi. 1990. Relativized minimality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kluender, Robert. 1991. Cognitive constraints on variables in syntax. La Jolla, CA: University of California, San Diego PhD dissertation.

Surveys and monographs

Sprouse, Jon and Norbert Hornstein (eds.). 2013. Experimental syntax and island effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chaves, Rui P. and Michael T. Putnam. 2020. Unbounded depdency constructions: Theoretical and experimental perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784999.001.0001

Further literature

Individual studies to be discussed will be provided in seminar.

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

Požadavky ke zkoušce

• active participation in the seminar (maximum of 3 absences)
• reading assigned materials
• leading a topical discussion / written assignment (10 pages)

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

Sylabus

• syntactic relations
• the notion of distance
• unbounded long-distance dependency
• locality constraints - islands
• types of islands
• coordination structure constraint
• complex NP island
• factive island
• negative island
• etc.
• theories of locality and islands
• syntactic theories
• semantic/pragmatic theories
• information structural theories
• cognitive theories
• empirical methodology for testing locality theories
• gradient acceptability

Poslední úprava: Šimík Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2023)