{"id":1695,"date":"2010-09-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2010-09-06T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:51:12","slug":"course-announcement-24-946-linguistic-theory-and-japanese-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/09\/07\/course-announcement-24-946-linguistic-theory-and-japanese-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Course announcement: 24.946 Linguistic Theory and Japanese Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>24.946, Linguistic Theory and Japanese Language<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nInstructor: Shigeru Miyagawa<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nFall 2010, Tuesdays, 10 -1 (will end by 12:40 for those traveling to Harvard for Jim Huang&#8217;s class on Chinese linguistics at 1:15).<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>We will look at a variety of issues in linguistic theory from the perspective of Japanese with critical comparisons to other languages.  Topics include the following:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI><br clear='none'\/>\nModularity (causatives, with reference to work on blocking in English, e.g., Embick, Kiparsky)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Agreement (with comparison to Basque)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Wh-movement (including work on Fukuoka dialect and sign language)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Genitive marking on the subject and specification of Phase (comparisons to Turkish, Slavic, and possibly Uyghur)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Status of argument structure (ditransitives, with reference to work on nominalization in English, e.g., Kayne, Pesetsky)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Optionality (comparision of QR and scrambling)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> Postposting\/Rightward movement (comparisons to Hindi, Turkish, Uyghur)<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P>For reading materials, see the course stellar site: <a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa10\/24.946\/\">http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa10\/24.946\/<\/a><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.946, Linguistic Theory and Japanese Language Instructor: Shigeru Miyagawa Fall 2010, Tuesdays, 10 -1 (will end by 12:40 for those traveling to Harvard for Jim Huang&#8217;s class on Chinese linguistics at 1:15). We will look at a variety of issues in linguistic theory from the perspective of Japanese with critical comparisons to other languages. Topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}