Welcome to Syntax, a course covering the syntax you need to know for first and second-year syntax courses. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email them to contact@trevtutor.com
The lecture series is now complete. If you have any additional topics that you would like to be covered, please email contact@trevtutor.com with your suggestion, as well as some sources or references so I can cover exactly what you’re looking for. The final exam will only cover up to the “Islands” video.
Lectures
Introduction and Grammatical Categories
Introduction and Glossing
Verbs and Their Grammatical Properties
Nouns and Their Grammatical Properties
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions
X-Bar Theory and Constituency
Constituents
Tree Structure Relations
X-Bar Theory
X-Bar Theory Practice
Lexical and Functional Phrases
DP Hypothesis
Complementizer Phrases (CPs)
Tense Phrases (TPs) and Modals
Clauses and Subordination
Theta Roles and Theta Grids
Expletives and Extended Projection Principle (EPP)
Perfect and Progressive Phrases
Movement and Case
Movement and Subject-Auxiliary Inversion
Do-Support and Negation
VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis
Case Theory
Raising Verbs
Control Verbs and PRO
Passive Constructions
Wh-Movement
Relative Clauses
Islands
Binding Theory
Binding Principles
Exams
Final Exam (PDF)
Final Exam – Solutions (PDF)
