Theory in Language Description

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Offered through National Research University Higher School of Economics

Introduction

The course will provide the following learning outcomes:

  1. learning the architecture and the internal logic of individual theoretical models on various levels of language structure, including phonology, morphophonology, syntax, semantics and discourse
  2. developing skills in application of these theories in modelling empirical data and describing individual languages
  3. training in formal and not-so-formal linguistic theories and way of theoretical thinking they are associated with

The topic for my part of this course is Modularity in linguistic theory, and the discussion will focus on the tension between Minimalism and Cartography and the relationship between syntax and information structure.

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I’m Pavel Rudnev, and this is my personal website. I’m a research fellow and lecturer in linguistics at HSE University in Moscow. My main area of interest is syntax and its interfaces with sound and meaning. In particular, my current research revolves around the structure of nominal expressions, agreement, case and verbal morphosyntax in East Caucasian languages, and the syntax-to-phonology mapping in Russian Sign Language.

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