Principles and Parameters in Natural Language Video Lectures

Principles and Parameters in Natural Language
'Principles and Parameters in Natural Language' Video Lectures by Prof. Rajesh Kumar from IIT Madras
"Principles and Parameters in Natural Language" - Video Lectures
1. Introduction of the Course
2. What is linguistics? What is Language?
3. Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect
4. E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system
5. Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind
6. How do we learn language?
7. Language Acquisition
8. Innateness: Some Essential Concepts
9. Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds
10. Sounds (Vocal Apparatus)
11. Places and Manners of Articulation
12. Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules
13. Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural)
14. Sentence: An Introduction
15. Making of a Sentence (Components)
16. Grammaticality and Acceptability
17. Subject and Verb in a Sentence
18. Sentence: Objects and Verbs
19. Phrase Structure
20. X-Bar Theory
21. Specifier and Complement
22. Complements and Adjuncts
23. VP Components
24. Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs
25. Thematic Relations
26. Case
27. Morphological and Abstract Case
28. Structural Case
29. Exceptional Case Marking
30. Movement
31. Motivations for Movement
32. Questions and Movement
33. Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik
34. Passives and NP Movement
35. NP Movement and Raising
36. Binding Theory and NP Interpretations
37. Principles of Binding Theory
38. Constraints on Movements
39. Structure of Language and Negation
40. Negation and Negative Polarity Items
41. Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics
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