SPAN 625

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Spanish Morphosyntax

Spanish and Portuguese College of Humanities

Course Description

Linguistic study of morphological and syntactic structure of Spanish.

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Linguistic Theories

Learning Outcome

Compare how different theories explain a set of syntactical problems of Spanish (e.g., passive voice, subject-verb inversion, clitic placement, wh-movement, etc).

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Research Paper

Learning Outcome

Write a research paper in which a variety of approaches to a particular problem of syntax are compared and contrasted.

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Syntactic Theory

Learning Outcome

Display understanding of how contemporary syntactic theory has developed from the contributions of Noam Chomsky to more recent advances in cognitive approaches.