This course provides an introduction to syntactic theory and analysis and reviews major topics in current syntactic research, primarily in the generative tradition. The emphasis is on the comparison between Greek and English syntactic phenomena in terms of parametric variation but also as a matter of cross-linguistic comparability. Theoretical issues relate to basic assumptions relating to the architecture of grammar, constituency, X' theory, case theory, theta roles etc. Descriptive questions to be discussed will include the following: -the distribution of subjects; -word order variation; -finite and non-finite forms; -auxiliaries and main verbs; -tense, aspect and mood; -different sentence types.
