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From Words to Phrases
The Big Picture: Three Examples
The Cinque Hierarchy
Greenberg Universals
Parameters (wh-movement)
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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
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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
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See lecture notes for Lecture 2 for these notes |
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The Architecture of the Grammar
The Rule Move: Scrambling in Japanese
What's Universal? The UTAH Condition on Thematic Role Assignment
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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
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The English Verb System |
See lecture notes for Lecture 5 for these notes |
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Case Theory
Morphological Case Systems
Case Theory and the Distribution of Complements
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DP vs. Non-DP; V&P vs. N&A
English as a Case Language!
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See lecture notes for Lecture 7 for these notes |
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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
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Unaccusativity
The 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law
Ne-cliticization in Italian and Other Tests for Unaccusativity
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How Well Can We Predict Unaccusativity from Lexical Semantics? |
See lecture notes for Lecture 10 for these notes |
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Coreference and Constituent Structure
Principle A, Principle B, Principle C
Coreference, Binding and Disjoint Reference
Governing Category
Long-distance Reflexives in Dutch and Chinese
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Binding vs. Coreference
Binding and Coreference in Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
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See lecture notes for Lecture 12 for these notes |
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Is it Real? |
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A-Bar Movement
Wh-movement as Movement to Spec, CP
I-to-C Movement and Wh-movement in Questions and Relative Clauses
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See lecture notes for Lecture 14 for these notes |
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Wh-phrases
Doubly-Filled Comp filter
Relative Clauses
The Model of Grammar: "Superiority Effects" and "Tucking In"
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See lecture notes for Lecture 14 for these notes |
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Island Phenomena; the "Subjacency Condition" |
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Incorporation
The Condition on Extraction Domains (CED). Incorporation (Mohawk, Chichewa, Southern Tiwa)
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See lecture notes for Lecture 17 for these notes |
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Covert Movement and "Logical Form"
WH-movement in Japanese/Chinese-type Languages. Adjuncts vs. Arguments. Covert Movement
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Ellipsis and Quantifier Raising
Quantifier Raising, VP-ellipsis, Antecedent-Contained Deletion
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The Architecture of the Grammar
The "Minimalist Program"
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