Linguistics 689A Spring 2005

Readings in Syntactic Theory
Howard Lasnik

NOTE THE CHANGE FOR APRIL 19 AND 26.

Topic A Subjacency

Feb. 1 -Overview

  -Rudin, C. (1988) "On multiple questions and multiple wh-fronting", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6: 445-501. HOWARD

Feb. 8 -Rizzi, L. (1978) "Violations of the WH-Island Constraint in Italian", Journal of Italian Linguistics 5, 157-195. DIOGO

   -Torrego, E. (1984) "On Inversion in Spanish and Some of Its Effects", Linguistic Inquiry 15, 103-129. HAJIME

Feb. 15 -Huang, J. (1982) "Move WH in a Language Without WH-Movement", The Linguistic Review 1, 369-416. CHUNYUAN

Topic B Government and Proper Government

   -Aoun, J., N. Hornstein, and D. Sportiche (1981) "Some Aspects of Wide Scope Quantification", Journal of Linguistic Research 1;3, 69-95. STACEY

Feb. 22 -Kayne, R. (1983) "Connectedness", Linguistic Inquiry 14, 223-249. [Reprinted in Kayne (1984).] MATT

   -Chomsky, N. (1986) Barriers, MIT Press (Chapters 5-7: 16-42). JON

Mar. 1 -Huang, J. (1982) Logical Relations in Chinese and the Theory of Grammar, Doctoral dissertation, MIT (Chapter 7: 524-586). CHUNYUAN

   -Epstein, S. (1992) "Derivational Constraints on A'-Chain Formation", Linguistic Inquiry 23, 235-259. LYDIA

Topic C Phrase Structure, θ-Theory and Case

Mar. 8 -Overview

  -Jackendoff, R. (1977) "Constraints on Phrase Structure Rules", in Akmajian, Culicover, and Wasow, eds., Formal Syntax, Academic Press. (249-283) MATT

Mar. 15 -Fukui, N. and M. Speas (1986) "Specifiers and Projection", MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 8, 128-172. ERI

   -Belletti, A. (1988) "The Case of Unaccusatives", Linguistic Inquiry 19, 1-34.
     HAJIME

Mar. 22 VACATION

Mar. 29 -Pollock, J.-Y. (1989) "Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP", Linguistic Inquiry 20, 365-424. JON

         -Abstracts workshop

Apr. 5 -Abstract due

-Travis, L. (1991) "Parameters of Phrase Structure and Verb-Second Phenomena", in R. Freidin, ed., Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, MIT Press, 339-364. STACEY

Topic D Anaphora and Quantification

-Overview

Apr. 12 -Lasnik, H. (1976) "Remarks on Coreference", Linguistic Analysis 2, 1-22. [Reprinted in Lasnik (1989).] ERI

   -Reinhart, T. (1981) "Definite NP Anaphora and C-command Domains", Linguistic Inquiry 12, 605-635. STACEY

Apr. 19 -Review paper due

    -Belletti, A. and L. Rizzi (1991) "Notes on Psych-Verbs, Theta-Theory, and Binding", in Principles and parameters in comparative grammar, ed. Robert Freidin, 132-162. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press Freidin, ed. DIOGO
-Huang, J. (1993) "Reconstruction and the Structure of VP", Linguistic Inquiry 24, 103-138. CHUNYUAN

Apr. 26 -Aoun, J. and A. Li (1989) "Constituency and Scope", Linguistic Inquiry, 20, 141-172. HAJIME

Topic E Ellipsis

         -Overview

May 3 -Ross, J. R. (1969) Guess who? In Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, ed. Robert I. Binnick, Alice Davison, Georgia M. Green, and Jerry L. Morgan, 252-286. Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. ERI

    -Hankamer, J., and I. Sag. (1976) ADeep and surface anaphora@, Linguistic Inquiry 7, 391-428. MATT

May 10 -Lasnik, H. (1997) A gap in an ellipsis paradigm: Some theoretical implications. Linguistic Analysis 27: 166-185. DIOGO

    -Merchant, J. (2002) Swiping in Germanic. In Studies in comparative Germanic syntax, ed. C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham, 295-321. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. JON

May 17 -Paper due