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Anthropology 248b Introduction to Syntax and Semantics

An introduction to contemporary generative syntax and semantics: lexical categories, lexical semantics, morphology in relation to syntax, constituency, dependency, grammatical relations, argument structure, sentential semantics focussing especially on the relation between semantic structure and syntactic structure. The primary language discussed will be English but examples will be drawn from other languages where appropriate.

Prerequisite: Anthropology 027a/b or Linguistics 288a/b or the former Anthropology 021 or the former French 288a/b or permission of the Department.
3 hours, half course.


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