Schedule
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[Week 14, W] Presentations 2008-12-03
Presentations.
[Week 14, M] Presentations 2008-12-01
Presentations.
[Week 13, W] Presentations 2008-11-26
Presentations.
[Week 13, M] Nonconfigurationality 2008-11-24
More on nonconfigurational languages.
[Week 12, W] Nonconfigurationality 2008-11-19
Nonconfigurationality.
[Week 12, M] Wh-Movement 2008-11-17
Wh-Movement. Islands. Minimal Link Condition.
Wh-in-situ languages.
[Week 11, W] Wh-Movement 2008-11-12
Review (infinitives, DP internal structure.)
Wh-Movement and Quantifier Float.
Island Constraints.
[Week 11, M] Pro Drop 2008-11-10
Review. Pro-drop. Wh-Movement.
[Week 10, W] Types of infinitives 2008-11-05
Review. ECM vs. Object Control.
Modern Greek.
Practice sheet for the exam.
[Week 10, M] Infinitives 2008-11-03
Case Theory, arguments for and against.
Raising, Control, Object Control, ECM.
[Week 9, W] DP Movement 2008-10-29
Arizona Tewa. Raising vs. Control.
[Week 9, M] DP Movement 2008-10-27
DP Movement. Passive, Unaccusatives, Raising.
[Week 8, W] DP Movement 2008-10-22
DP Movement. The Theta Criterion and Case Theory.
Lecture notes.
Homework: Due Monday, Oct. 27th. From the textbook:
Exercise 2 (Arizona Tewa), p. 308. Exercise 8 (Unaccusatives and Passives), p. 312.
[Week 8, M] Head Mvt in DP 2008-10-20
Head Movement in DP.
Parallels between clause structure and nominal structure.
[Week 7, W] DP 2008-10-15
Motivation for DP.
Review from the exam: Embedded V2 in Yiddish.
Homework: Due Monday, Oct. 20th: Do Exercise 7 (Hebrew), pp. 276-277, and Challenge Problem Set 4 (Italian), pp. 282-283.
[Week 6, W] Exam 1 2008-10-08
Exam 1. Closed book, closed note.
[Week 6, M] Review 2008-10-06
Review for the exam.
[Week 5, W] VP Internal Subjects 2008-10-01
Irish review. VP Interal Subject Hypothesis.
Lecture notes.
Practice problems.
[Week 5, M] Lab day 2008-09-29
Practice/review day. Review of the solution to Assignment 2.
[Week 4, W] Head Movement III 2008-09-24
Head Movement and VP Ellipsis. VSO word order in Irish.
Lecture notes.
Homework: NO HW THIS WEEK.
[Week 4, M] Head Movement II 2008-09-22
V2 in Germanic.
Lecture notes.
[Week 3, W] Head Movement I 2008-09-17
The Head Movement Parameter.
Lecture notes.
Reading: Chapter 9.
Homework: Assignment 2.
[Week 3, M] X-Bar Theory 2008-09-15
X-Bar Theory. The Head Position Parameter.
Lecture notes.
Reading: Chapters 6 and 7.
[Week 2, W] Phrase Structure II 2008-09-10
More practice with phrase structure grammars.
Lecture notes.
Homework: Assignment 1.
[Week 2, M] Phrase Structure I 2008-09-08
Simple phrase structure grammars across languages.
Lecture notes.
[Week 1, W] Introduction and Course Overview 2008-09-03
Constituent structure and how to argue for it.
Reading: Chapters 1-3.