Syllabus
Review of basic general linguistics
Syntax
- unbounded dependencies
- clitics
Information Structure
- theories (Sgall & Hajičová, Jackendoff, Vallduví, Roberts)
- expression of IS: prosody (TOBI annotation), word-order, etc
Formal Semantics
- extensional, Intensional and Hyperintensional theories of meaning
Linguistic Theories
- dependency grammars
- HPSG
- categorial grammars
- Government and Binding
- Optimality Theory
Historical Linguistics and Language Development
- comparative reconstruction
- NLP and quantitative methods in Historical Ling.
Psycholinguistics a Neurolinguistic
- L1 aquisition
- language processing and production
- bilingualism
- research methods
Annotation
The course will help students to get familiar with advanced topics in linguistics, especially syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics. Most topics will be addressed both from the perspective of traditional linguistics and from the formal perspective of mathematics and computer science.
Students are expected to have basic knowledge of linguistics, for example as provided by NPFL063 - Introduction to General Linguistics.