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Role and Reference Grammar
Ted Gibson
Wed Jan 9, Thu Jan 10, Fri Jan 11, 10am-12:00pm, E25-117

Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Graduate and advanced undergraduate enrollment only.

This course will present the basics of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a grammatical theory developed by Robert Van Valin and others which draws heavily on the analysis of non-Indo-European languages and which is concerned with the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in grammatical systems. RRG is a monostratal theory which posits a single syntactic representation for a sentence, which is linked directly to a semantic representation by means of a linking algorithm. RRG takes language to be a system of communicative social action. From this perspective, analyzing the communicative functions of grammatical structures plays a vital role in grammatical description and theory.
Contact: Ted Gibson, NE20-459, x3-8609, gibson@psyche.mit.edu
Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Latest update: 13-Nov-2001


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