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Argument
Structure from a Syntactic Point of View
The purpose of this course is to present an
investigation of the theoretical and empirical consequences for
argument structure of assuming the feature-driven implementation of
the Minimalist program (Chomsky, Pesetsky & Torrego). Working with
Agree relations between uninterpretable/unvalued and interpretable/valued
features, this implementation restricts the occurrence of DP and CP
arguments. Investigating argument structure from a syntactic point
of view, argument structure is not a result of information and
processes residing within the lexicon, but a combination of the
architecture of syntax and the meaning of category free roots. The
course will take its point of departue in a short introduction to
present day research on argument structure and give a brief
introduction to the relevant parts of the Minimalist program. The
main part of the course will present and discuss the theoretically
possible argument structures, given the particular implementation of
the minimalist framework argued for.
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