Syntactic Analysis

In this class, we will learn about Role and Reference Grammar in application to several corpora from endangered languages.

Each student will pick one corpus/language and as we discuss different types of structures (simple clauses, arguments, adverbials, tense/mood/aspect operators, embedded clauses etc.), we will identify relevant examples from each corpus and sketch a syntactic analysis. We will discuss difficult cases and language-specific particularities as we go along.

We learn to plot RRG structures and write in LaTeX.

The wider context for this class is a planned research project which will aim to provide syntactic annotations for corpora from endangered languages.