Contemporary linguistic theories 1

The selection of topics is based on their freshness and influence in the linguistic literature during the time of study.

1. Syntax
a. Uninterpretable morphosyntactic features in Minimalist Program.
b. Formal similarities between sentential and nominal domain.
c. Interface between syntax and other modules of grammar.

2. Semantics
a. Interpretation of sentential functional projections: tense, aspect, modality, speech act.
b. Interpretation of nominal functional projections: quantification, definiteness, countability, etc.

3. Phonology
a. Melodic structure of segments
b. Autosegmentality, phonotactics, relations between skeletal points.
c. Theories of lenition.
d. Interface with morphology/syntax.

4. Morphology
a. Formation of words in Minimalist Grammar. Distributed Morphology (Marantz): words are formed by generating complex syntactic heads in anywhere in the grammar and in multiple ways: by head movement, head adjunction, and/or merging of structurally or linearly adjacent heads.
b. Role of morphological structures in an explanatory theory of linguistic competence.

David Adger, 2003, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach; OUP, Oxford. (Z vajami.) COBISS.SI-ID - 21985890
Morris Halle & Alec. Marantz, "Distibuted Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection", The View from Building 20: Essays In Linguistics In Honor of Sylvain Bromberger, Hale in Keyser, ur., The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, str. 111 – 76. COBISS.SI-ID - 1562210
Andrew Spencer & Arnold M. Zwicky,1998, The Handbook of Morphology, Blackwell, Oxford. COBISS.SI-ID - 9405282
Andrew Radford, 2004, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, CUP, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 25875042
Adriana Belletti, ur. 2004, Structures and Beyond. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 3, OUP, Oxford. COBISS.SI-ID - 165414915
Guglielmo Cinque, 1997, Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-linguistic Perspective; OUP, Oxford. COBISS.SI-ID - 36262498
Noam Chomsky, 1995, The Minimalist Program, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. COBISS.SI-ID 3536994
Jonathan Kaye, 1989. Phonology: a cognitive view. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. COBISS.SI-ID - 807419
Scheer, Tobias. 2004. A lateral theory of phonology. Vol 1: What is CVCV, and why should it be?. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. COBISS.SI-ID - 793339
Embick, David. 2010. Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 46272610
Richard Larson G. Segal, 1995, Knowledge of Meaning, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. COBISS.SI-ID - 260951
Una Stojnić (2021). Context and coherence : the logic and grammar of prominence. Oxford University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 134703619