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Paul Hagstrom

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Email: hagstrom@bu.edu
Web: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/hagstrom/
Office phone: 617-353-6220
Fax: 617-358-4641
Office number: 105
Office address: 621 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Office hours: On sabbatical leave for 2007-08

BA, Carleton College
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Hagstrom's research interests are in syntax, semantics, and language acquisition.

Courses

Fall 2008
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LX 500 Topics in Linguistics: Language Acquisition A1

Hagstrom

 TR 3:30-5 TBA
[Description for Fall 2008] A general introduction to the study of first and second language acquisition within the framework of generative grammar, focused on the development of syntax. Topics include: the status and development of functional categories, verb-movement, finiteness, null subjects, binding, and questions. [(Fall 2008) Prereq: CAS LX 522 Syntax I]
CAS LX 522 Syntax I A1

Hagstrom

 TR 12:30-2 TBA
Part one of a two-semester sequence. Introduction to the logical structure and organization of language, and to Chomskyan theory. Application of principles of syntactic analysis to students' own and other languages through data-oriented problems from different language types. [Prereq: CAS LX 250 or equivalent.]

Spring 2009
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LX 500 Topics in Linguistics: Questions B1

Hagstrom

 TR 12:30-2 TBA
[Description for Spring 2009] Exploration of a central issue in theoretical linguistics, the typology of question formation across languages, from several perspectives. Syntactic universals and variation, semantic interpretation and discourse effects, and intonational effects will be brought to bear in developing a theoretical understanding. [(Spring 2009) Prereq: CAS LX 522 or equivalent]
CAS LX 523 Syntax II A1

Hagstrom

 M 4-7 TBA
Study of recent developments in syntactic theory, including the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar (the Minimalist Program, Antisymmetry) and certain other generative approaches (including Optimality Theory). This course builds on the background from established in LX 522 and provides an introduction to current issues in the field and proposals from the current theoretical linguistics literature. [(Spring 2009) Prereq: CAS LX 522 or equivalent]
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