NPTEL : Principles and Parameters in Natural Language (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rajesh Kumar


Lecture 1 - Introduction of the Course

Lecture 2 - What is linguistics? What is Language?

Lecture 3 - Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect

Lecture 4 - E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system

Lecture 5 - Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind

Lecture 6 - How do we learn language?

Lecture 7 - Language Acquisition

Lecture 8 - Innateness: Some Essential Concepts

Lecture 9 - Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds

Lecture 10 - Sounds (Vocal Apparatus)

Lecture 11 - Places and Manners of Articulation

Lecture 12 - Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules

Lecture 13 - Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural)

Lecture 14 - Sentence: An Introduction

Lecture 15 - Making of a Sentence (Components)

Lecture 16 - Grammaticality and Acceptability

Lecture 17 - Subject and Verb in a Sentence

Lecture 18 - Sentence: Objects and Verbs

Lecture 19 - Phrase Structure

Lecture 20 - X-Bar Theory

Lecture 21 - Specifier and Complement

Lecture 22 - Complements and Adjuncts

Lecture 23 - VP Components

Lecture 24 - Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs

Lecture 25 - Thematic Relations

Lecture 26 - Case

Lecture 27 - Morphological and Abstract Case

Lecture 28 - Structural Case

Lecture 29 - Exceptional Case Marking

Lecture 30 - Movement

Lecture 31 - Motivations for Movement

Lecture 32 - Questions and Movement

Lecture 33 - Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik

Lecture 34 - Passives and NP Movement

Lecture 35 - NP Movement and Raising

Lecture 36 - Binding Theory and NP Interpretations

Lecture 37 - Principles of Binding Theory

Lecture 38 - Constraints on Movements

Lecture 39 - Structure of Language and Negation

Lecture 40 - Negation and Negative Polarity Items

Lecture 41 - Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics