Humanities - Principles and Parameters in Natural Language (English)

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Lecture 1: Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction of the Course

Lecture 2: Mod-01 Lec-02 What is linguistics? What is Language?

Lecture 3: Mod-01 Lec-03 Language and Arbitrariness, Language and Dialect

Lecture 4: Mod-01 Lec-04 E vs I Language, Language as a rule governed system

Lecture 5: Mod-01 Lec-05 Language Faculty, Language in Human Mind

Lecture 6: Mod-01 Lec-06 How do we learn language?

Lecture 7: Mod-01 Lec-07 Language Acquisition

Lecture 8: Mod-01 Lec-08 Innateness: Some Essential Concepts

Lecture 9: Mod-01 Lec-09 Structure of Language at the Level of Sounds

Lecture 10: Mod-01 Lec-10 Sounds (Vocal Apparatus)

Lecture 11: Mod-01 Lec-11 Places and Manners of Articulation

Lecture 12: Mod-01 Lec-12 Word Formation/Phonotactic Rules

Lecture 13: Mod-01 Lec-13 Rules of Word Formation (Singular-Plural)

Lecture 14: Mod-01 Lec-14 Sentence: An Introduction

Lecture 15: Mod-01 Lec-15 Making of a Sentence (Components)

Lecture 16: Mod-01 Lec-16 Grammaticality and Acceptability

Lecture 17: Mod-01 Lec-17 Subject and Verb in a Sentence

Lecture 18: Mod-01 Lec-18 Sentence: Objects and Verbs

Lecture 19: Mod-01 Lec-19 Phrase Structure

Lecture 20: Mod-01 Lec-20 X-Bar Theory

Lecture 21: Mod-01 Lec-21 Specifier and Complement

Lecture 22: Mod-01 Lec-22 Complements and Adjuncts

Lecture 23: Mod-01 Lec-23 VP Components

Lecture 24: Mod-01 Lec-24 Categorial Selections, Selectional Restrictions on verbs

Lecture 25: Mod-01 Lec-25 Thematic Relations

Lecture 26: Mod-01 Lec-26 Case

Lecture 27: Mod-01 Lec-27 Morphological and Abstract Case

Lecture 28: Mod-01 Lec-28 Structural Case

Lecture 29: Mod-01 Lec-29 Exceptional Case Marking

Lecture 30: Mod-01 Lec-30 Movement

Lecture 31: Mod-01 Lec-31 Motivations for Movement

Lecture 32: Mod-01 Lec-32 Questions and Movement

Lecture 33: Mod-01 Lec-32B Guest Lecture: Generative Grammar by Professor B. N. Patnaik

Lecture 34: Mod-01 Lec-33 Passives and NP Movement

Lecture 35: Mod-01 Lec-34 NP Movement and Raising

Lecture 36: Mod-01 Lec-35 Binding Theory and NP Interpretations

Lecture 37: Mod-01 Lec-36 Principles of Binding Theory

Lecture 38: Mod-01 Lec-37 Constraints on Movements

Lecture 39: Mod-01 Lec-38 Structure of Language and Negation

Lecture 40: Mod-01 Lec-39 Negation and Negative Polarity Items

Lecture 41: Mod-01 Lec-40 Structure, Language, Cognition and Pragmatics