{"id":5720,"date":"2014-02-03T05:05:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:21:22","slug":"24-943-syntax-of-a-language-family-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/02\/03\/24-943-syntax-of-a-language-family-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"24.943 Syntax of a Language (Family): Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24.943 Syntax of a Language (Family)<br clear='none'\/>\nNoah Constant<br clear='none'\/>\nW 12-3 32-D461<\/p>\n<p>This course explores a range of topics at the syntax\/semantics interface within the Chinese language family, with special attention to Mandarin.  Topics include:<\/p>\n<p>  - classifiers and structure of NP<br clear='none'\/>\n  - positioning of nominal modifiers<br clear='none'\/>\n  - quantification and scope-rigidity<br clear='none'\/>\n  - topics and topic-prominence<br clear='none'\/>\n  - focus constructions and clefts<br clear='none'\/>\n  - yes-no and alternative questions<br clear='none'\/>\n  - sentence-final particles<\/p>\n<p>Participants will give in-class presentations of one or more assigned readings, and will write a short final paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.943 Syntax of a Language (Family) Noah Constant W 12-3 32-D461 This course explores a range of topics at the syntax\/semantics interface within the Chinese language family, with special attention to Mandarin. Topics include: - classifiers and structure of NP - positioning of nominal modifiers - quantification and scope-rigidity - topics and topic-prominence - focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}