140086 SE Advances in theoretical African linguistics (2013W)

In this advanced seminar course, participants will be given the opportunity to explore in-depth a particular syntactic/grammatical construction or a group of constructions from various theoretical perspectives. African language data and African linguists have contributed a lot to the development of contemporary linguistic theory. Students familiar with any one contemporary linguistic theory, like LFG or minimalism, will examine in-depth how the particular construction is handled in that theory; those not familiar with any linguistic theory have to learn one anew and then use it to analyze the construction in question.