LING 261 - bG ,Topics in Syntax:English and Its Kin

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Yale University

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RaffaellaZanuttini. f9.25-11.15 So (0) The syntactic properties of English compared with those of other Germanic languages such as Icelandic, Swedish, and German. What the similarities and differences reveal about the limits of syntactic variation. Examination of both standard and nonstandard varieties of English spoken in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Topics include transitive expletives, object shift, stylistic fronting, and inversion. Prerequisite: ling 254b, or with permission of instructor.

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3.00

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(203) 432-4771

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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