{"id":4063,"date":"2026-01-20T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/?page_id=4063"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:36:58","slug":"m1s2-topics-in-minimalist-syntax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/en\/m1s2-topics-in-minimalist-syntax\/","title":{"rendered":"Topics in Minimalist Syntax (Master S2 Class)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime;][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime;][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime;][et_pb_post_title meta=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.1&Prime;]<\/p>\n<h4>Basic information<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Credits: 3<\/li>\n<li>Format: 2.5 hours weekly<\/li>\n<li>2026-2027 instructors: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/caterina-donati\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caterina Donati<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2026-2027 schedule: TBD<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.u-pariscite.fr\/course\/view.php?id=37039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moodle page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Description<\/h4>\n<p>The aim of this class is to reflect on a number of problems that have been central to the developing of recent syntactic theories and are still matter of great debate. <br \/>In the first part of the course, we shall focus on three such problems: the role of features in driving syntactic derivations, the status of word order, reduced structures. <br \/>In the second part, we shall collectively choose another theoretical problem and set a collective research addressing it from various points of views. Each student shall present its contribution a) in an abstract that will be peer reviewed in class; b) in an oral presentation that shall be discussed; c) in a joint final paper. On the problem to be discussed, we shall take a theoretical and an empirical\/experimental stance, including 1) a survey and assessment of the theoretical proposals that have been made and their problems; 2) an exploration of their cross linguistic validity; 3) the setting of some experimental guidelines on how to progress on the relevant issue.<\/p>\n<h4>Prerequisites<\/h4>\n<p>The course is conceived as a natural prosecution of the S1 course Syntax, and it thus presupposes good mastery of the basics of Minimalist syntactic theory and analytical tools.<\/p>\n<h4>Learning outcomes<\/h4>\n<p>On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write an academic abstract, a short academic paper on a theoretical problem and present and discuss it orally.<\/li>\n<li>Have a good knowledge of the major debates in contemporary theoretical syntax, the issues at stake, their methodological options, their typological coverage.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in collaborative research with good mastery of the tenets of fair anonymous constructive reviewing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic information Credits: 3 Format: 2.5 hours weekly 2026-2027 instructors: Caterina Donati 2026-2027 schedule: TBD Moodle page Description The aim of this class is to reflect on a number of problems that have been central to the developing of recent syntactic theories and are still matter of great debate. In the first part of the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/en\/m1s2-topics-in-minimalist-syntax\/\">Lire la suite<span> Topics in Minimalist Syntax (Master S2 Class)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"coauthors":[114],"class_list":["post-4063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4063\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-paris.fr\/linguistique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}