Linguistics | The Ontogenesis of Syntax
L700 | 4511 | Uriagereka, J.


Five lectures dealing with some of the architectural issues that
arise with a minimalist UG, especially when understood as having
evolved.

Lecture 1: What is syntax, that it may have evolved? What is
evolution, that it may have allowed syntax to evolve?

Lecture 2: The Immune Syntax. How much like the Immune System can UG
be said to be, and why should that be so?

Lecture 3: Desiderata for a synthesis, Part 1: Have we given up the
Chomsky Hierarchy?

Lecture 4: Desiderata for a synthesis, Part 2: Distributed
Interfaces, a dynamic syntax and reading the Chomsky Hierarchy.

Lecture 5: What conditions ought the hardware have to permit our
kind of software-or where is systemic theory, after all?