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School of Letters Department of Humanities Human Sciences Course Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Major Major (Credit 1) Intended Year: Intended School: |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Lecture XVIII)B
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM2728J Course Code: 2026 FallTerm intensive Ito Classroom E/J科目 (日本語, English) |
| Course Overview |
This course provides an overview of Relational Linguistics, a new framework in theoretical linguistics. In traditional generative linguistics, it was assumed that the atomic elements of syntactic computation were lexical items defined with various properties (features), and that phrases and sentences were constructed by combining these items with an indiscriminate rule of combination (Merge). However, are lexical items truly defined by those "properties"? Is structure building really brought about by the indiscriminate rule of combination? Relational Linguistics takes these questions as its starting point, seeking to minimize the entire grammatical system by positing binary relations as the atomic elements of grammar. This course surveys both the prehistory and current developments of Relational Linguistics. To accommodate students who lack background knowledge, the first two days will be devoted to an overview of Generative Grammar. Days 3 through 4 will focus on Relational Linguistics, and the final day will outline the autopoietic model of language that underlies the framework. |
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