| Description
| This course provides an introduction to the study of sentence structures. It directs students to progress to a deeper understanding of grammatical constructions, including various descriptive and theoretical approaches to representing them. By the end of this course, students will have
1. become familiar with the core concepts of syntax, such as grammaticality, grammatical categories (e.g. nouns, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions), grammatical relations (e.g. subjects, objects, and adjuncts), constituent structures (e.g. heads, complements, and specifies), semantic roles (e.g. agent, themes, and experiencers), and movement operations (e.g. interrogation and passivization).
2. developed an ability to analyze the primary sentence structures of English, such as finite and non-finite clauses, simple, compound, and complex sentences, active and passive voices, declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamative sentence types, and embedded clauses belonging to distinct grammatical cat
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