Course Description
This course provides a survey of recurring syntactic patterns across languages and introduces tools and strategies that can be used to analyze and describe the grammatical structure of individual languages. Topics covered include voice and valence alternations, complementation, control, raising, relativization, morphological causatives, and serial verbs.
This course is required for all students in the Descriptive Linguistics concentration and is a prerequisite for AL5395 Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics.
Course Details
Level: Master's LevelCredit hours: 3
Term(s) course is offered: Spring
Prerequisites: AL 4410 Principles of Grammatical Analysis or AL5301 Morphosyntax.
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