Sample topics for individual research projects
Lexical Categories in Linguistic Theory
Spring 2004

Student researchers who join the Lexical Categories research group will pursue an individual research project that explores differences among nouns, verbs, and/or adjectives in some area of linguistics (ideally, outside of synchronic adult syntax).

Sample ideas for research topics
A project could look at lexical category differences in...
  • amount or type of morphology available/required
  • L1 (or L2) acquisition
  • language impairment
  • word or sentence processing
  • historical change
  • pidgin & creole development
  • phonology
  • ...

The scope of a project could be...

  • a detailed investigation into one language
  • a comparison of a small number of languages
  • a cross-linguistic survey of a large number of languages

More background information on this research project is also available.

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