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studies:graduation:thesis:topics:linguistics [2019-11-30 11:20] – [linguistics] Péter Szigetváristudies:graduation:thesis:topics:linguistics [2019-11-30 12:46] – [Irina Burukina, Marcel den Dikken, Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi] Péter Szigetvári
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 # Inversion of the subject and the finite verb occurs in a variety of different contexts in English: root interrogatives (//Have you eaten yet?//, //What are you eating?//); root- and non-root clauses featuring fronting of a negative constituent (//Under no circumstances would they accept this; It is reported that under no circumstances would they accept this//) sentences; conditionals (//Had you been more diligent, you would have been more successful//); locative inversion (//On this wall hung a picture of the president//). Discuss the syntax of inversion in English in as comprehensive a way as possible. # Inversion of the subject and the finite verb occurs in a variety of different contexts in English: root interrogatives (//Have you eaten yet?//, //What are you eating?//); root- and non-root clauses featuring fronting of a negative constituent (//Under no circumstances would they accept this; It is reported that under no circumstances would they accept this//) sentences; conditionals (//Had you been more diligent, you would have been more successful//); locative inversion (//On this wall hung a picture of the president//). Discuss the syntax of inversion in English in as comprehensive a way as possible.
 # 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? # 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's//? What should the syntax say about special uses of //'s// and //of// in constructions such as //men's room, a city of great beauty, that jewel of a city, the City of London//.+# 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's//? What should the syntax say about special uses of //’s// and //of// in constructions such as //men's room, a city of great beauty, that jewel of a city, the City of London//.
 # Light verbs (//__make__ a turn, __take__ a walk//): How are these best represented in syntax? Do they have meaning?  If so, is their meaning constant or variable? # Light verbs (//__make__ a turn, __take__ a walk//): How are these best represented in syntax? Do they have meaning?  If so, is their meaning constant or variable?
 # Different ways of expressing causation in English (lexical causatives, morphological causatives, //make// causatives, //have// causatives, //cause+to// causatives): What are the syntactic differences and similarities between them? # Different ways of expressing causation in English (lexical causatives, morphological causatives, //make// causatives, //have// causatives, //cause+to// causatives): What are the syntactic differences and similarities between them?
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