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= linguistics | = linguistics | ||
- | >> under construction | + | These topics are suggested by DELG staff to students planning to write their BA thesis in linguistics. |
- | These topics | + | == Irina Burukina, Marcel den Dikken, Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi |
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+ | # The syntax and morphology of tense and aspect in English: How many tenses and aspects | ||
+ | # The subjunctive mood in English: Does it exist and, if so, under which circumstances do we find it? What is the relationship between the subjunctive and imperative mood? | ||
+ | # How can the differences and similarities between topicalisation (//This dish I wouldn' | ||
+ | # Cleft (//It is a pizza that he is eating//) and pseudo-cleft (//What he is eating is a pizza//, //A pizza is what he is eating//) sentences: How does their syntax work? What are they useful for? | ||
+ | # Degrees of comparison in the adjectival system, and the interaction between morphology and syntax: e.g., // | ||
+ | # The placement of adverbial modifiers in the English clause: pre- //vs// post-modal adverbial insertion (//He likely will say yes// ~ //He will likely say yes; He likely won't say yes// ~ //He won't likely say yes//); the distribution of the split infinitive (//I decided to fully describe it / fully to describe it / to describe it fully//). | ||
+ | # The distribution of the quantifiers //some// and //any// in negative and non-negative clauses: syntax and semantics (//I don't want to talk to somebody/ | ||
+ | # The status of //that// in restrictive relatives: relative pronoun or complementiser (//the man who/that I saw//, //the man to who(m)/*to that I spoke, *the man who that I saw//)? | ||
+ | # The status of //if// and // | ||
+ | # Sentential //vs// constituent negation: How does the distinction manifest itself, in English and other languages? Is the distinction syntactically real, and, if so, how is it represented in syntax? | ||
+ | # The English determiner system: How many different types of determiners can be distinguished? | ||
+ | # Inversion of the subject and the finite verb occurs in a variety | ||
+ | # Typical errors made by non-native learners of English: (a) the use of English articles (//He became pilot, I love the music// (as a generic statement about music in general), //Budapest of my youth//); (b) English word-order (//Who did take my pen?, Why you are doing this?, *Near Budapest have they a house//). What can the theory of syntax take away from or contribute to an understanding of these errors? | ||
+ | # The English genitive: Are //’s// and //of// exponents of the same syntactic category or not? How to analyse the co-occurrence of //’s// and //of// in expressions such as //a friend of John' | ||
+ | # Light verbs (//__make__ a turn, __take__ a walk//): How are these best represented in syntax? Do they have meaning? | ||
+ | # Different ways of expressing causation in English (lexical causatives, morphological causatives, //make// causatives, //have// causatives, // | ||
+ | # The special syntax of English news headlines and other forms of ' | ||
+ | # Accusative pronouns in English: How can we account for their distribution (//I want him to leave; Who wants to leave? Me!; Me and him are good mates; Him walking out like that was rude; Poor me!; Him a vegetarian? | ||
+ | # Different strategies in forming // | ||
+ | # The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis and a comprehensive syntactic representation of the distribution of the Theme (//They took the pirates off the ship; The pirates walked off the ship; The pirates are off the ship; With the pirates off the ship, the voyage can finally continue; As soon as they have left the gangplank, I consider the pirates off the ship//). | ||
== Zoltán G. Kiss | == Zoltán G. Kiss | ||
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* different theoretical approaches to the analysis of Linking and Intrusive R (rule-based theories vs. phonetics-based vs. historical approaches vs. analogy-based analyses, etc.) | * different theoretical approaches to the analysis of Linking and Intrusive R (rule-based theories vs. phonetics-based vs. historical approaches vs. analogy-based analyses, etc.) | ||
* variation in the realizations of CUBE vowels, when are the diphthongs pronounced long (without glides), when are the long monophthongs (R-vowels) realized as long vs. diphthongized; | * variation in the realizations of CUBE vowels, when are the diphthongs pronounced long (without glides), when are the long monophthongs (R-vowels) realized as long vs. diphthongized; | ||
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+ | == Péter A. Lázár | ||
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+ | * Multiword items classified in various English (and Hungarian) sources/ | ||
+ | * Regular polysemy types in English (and Hungarian): //a heavy book// vs //a difficult book; a chicken// vs //some chicken.// | ||
+ | * Instances of word forms of a lexeme having different/ | ||
+ | * Word families vs lexical/ | ||
+ | * Dictionaries: | ||
+ | * Types of oppositeness: | ||
+ | * Polysemy developing into homonymy: when/ | ||
+ | * Combining forms (neo-classical “compounds”) in English (and Hungarian). | ||
+ | * Non-right-headed compounds in English (and Hungarian). | ||
+ | * The opacity and the fixity gradience of English (and Hungarian) idioms. Can a word be an idiom? | ||
+ | * Creative variation with English (and Hungarian) idioms. | ||
+ | * “English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says”. On how many levels is this an impossible claim? | ||
+ | * Inflection vs derivation: crisp contrast or gradience? | ||
== Attila Starčević | == Attila Starčević | ||
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* How many degrees of stress are there in English? | * How many degrees of stress are there in English? | ||
* The sound system of Hunglish | * The sound system of Hunglish | ||
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+ | == Miklós Törkenczy | ||
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+ | * Flapping after sonorant consonants in English accents | ||
+ | * // | ||
+ | * “Yod-dropping” in unstressed syllables | ||
+ | * The phonology of the irregular past | ||
+ | * How regular is English stress? | ||
+ | * The stressing of compounds: patterns and predictability | ||
+ | * Stress clash (adjacent stresses) in words. | ||
+ | * Socially conditioned phonological variation in English | ||
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