Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Linguistics
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CNy18aE.13
- Title
- Elective CNy Specialisation Seminar - Foundations and Perspectives: Case Systems in the World's Languages
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- hu
- Learning outcomes
- In this course we will be investigating the phenomenon of grammatical case.
- Course content
- We will address questions such as: what is case and what is it for?; what are the ways in which case phenomena differ from one language to another? how can we best model these different case systems in a universal theory of grammar? We will be using examples from a variety of languages, some of which will be familiar and others not. By the end of the course you will gain some appreciation of how languages can differ from each other, but also of how what underlies these differences is a fairly uniform grammatical system.
- Assessment method
- Home essays.
- Bibliography
- Baker, Mark C. 2015. Case: Its Principles and Its Parameters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bobaljik, Jonathan David & Susi Wurmbrand. 2008. “Case in GB/Minimalism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Case, edited by Andrej Malchukov & Andrew Spencer, 44–58. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Marantz, Alec. 1991. Case and Licensing. In Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL) 8, 234–253. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Schütze, Carson T. 2011. On the Nature of Default Case. Syntax 14(3): 205–238. Wiley‑Blackwell.