Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1

From Words to Phrases
The Big Picture: Three Examples

The Cinque Hierarchy

Greenberg Universals

Parameters (wh-movement)

Marler, Peter. "On Innateness: Are Sparrow Songs 'Learned' or 'Innate'." In The Design of Animal Communication. Edited by Marc D. Hauser, and Mark Konishi. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. 293-318.
2

Constituent Structure and Tests for Constituent Structure

Sentence Fragments, Movement, Ellipsis, Anaphora as Tests for
Constituency

X-bar Theory: Heads

θ-roles

Complements and Modifiers

Specifiers

Radford, Andrew. Chapter 2 in Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 61-81.

———. Transformational Grammar: A First Course. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 167-196 only.
3

The Sisterhood Condition on Selection, and Some Consequences

Implications for Acquisition

Modification of the Sisterhood Condition gives the Notion "Head"

CP and IP

Apparent Deviations from the Sisterhood Condition due to Movement
"Scrambling" in Japanese

 
4

The Architecture of the Grammar

The Rule Move: Scrambling in Japanese

What's Universal? The UTAH Condition on Thematic Role Assignment

 
5

Head Movement

Apparent Deviations from the Sisterhood Condition in Verb-second languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Vata...)

Verb Movement to I in French

VSO Languages (Irish, Welsh...) and the VP-internal Subject Hypothesis

Carnie, Andrew. Chapter 8 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. 187-221.
6 The English Verb System  
7

Case Theory

Morphological Case Systems

Case Theory and the Distribution of Complements

  
8

DP vs. Non-DP; V&P vs. N&A

English as a Case Language!

  
9

A-Movement

Passive Sentences and Raising to Subject

Passive in the Clause and in NP

Long-distance Passive vs. Control (PRO)

Subject Control vs. Object Control

Carnie, Andrew. Chapter 9 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. 223-252.
10

Unaccusativity

The 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law.
ne-cliticization in Italian and other tests for unaccusativity

  
11 How Well Can We Predict Unaccusativity from Lexical Semantics?

Levin, Beth, and Malka Rappaport. "Introduction." Chapter 1 in Unaccusativity at the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. 2-33. Optional reading: Chapter 2, 34-81.
12

Coreference and Constituent Structure

Principle A, Principle B, Principle C

Coreference, Binding and Disjoint Reference

Governing Category

Long-distance Reflexives in Dutch and Chinese

Haegeman, Liliane. Chapter 4 in Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 201-229.
13

Binding vs. Coreference

Binding and Coreference in Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

Guasti, Maria Teresa. Chapter 8 in Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. 271-308.
14 Is it Real? Hendrick, R., and P. C. Gordon. "Intuitive Knowledge of Linguistic Coreference." In Cognition 62. Pp. 325-370.
15

A-Bar Movement

wh-movement as Movement to Spec, CP

I-to-C Movement and wh-movement in Questions and Relative Clauses

 Haegeman, Liliane. Chapter 7 in Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Sections 1-4.4. Pp. 371-384; 397-413.
16

wh-phrases

Doubly-Filled Comp Filter

Relative Clauses

The Model of Grammar: "Superiority Effects" and "Tucking In"

  
17 Island Phenomena; The "Subjacency Condition"

 
18

Incorporation

The Condition on Extraction Domains (CED)
Incorporation (Mohawk, Chichewa, Southern Tiwa)

 
19

Covert Movement and "Logical Form"

WH-movement in Japanese/Chinese-type languages
Adjuncts vs. Arguments
Covert Movement

 Haegeman, Liliane. Chapter 9 in Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Sections 1-2.3.3. Pp. 485-507.
20

Ellipsis and Quantifier Raising

Quantifier Raising, VP-ellipsis, Antecedent-Contained Deletion

  
21

The Architecture of the Grammar

The "Minimalist Program"