Educational Goals
Models of current theoretical linguistics. Generative, cognitive, functional and natural linguistics. Universal grammar, typology and theories of language acquisition.
Description
The cognitivism shift from Chomsky and the semanticist diaspora. The different faces of cognitivism in current linguistics.
The grammar of space: semantics and syntax of motion events.
Analysis of linguistic categories expressing stasis and movement in languages. Language variation in the coding of motion events. Universalism and relativism in comparison.