Principles and Parameters in Natural Language (USB)
Media Storage Type : 64 GB USB Stick
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. Rajesh Kumar
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Madras
NPTEL Lecture Count : 41
NPTEL Course Size : 32 GB
NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included
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Lecture Titles:
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