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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Carnie, Andrew. Chapter 8 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. 187-221.
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The English Verb System |
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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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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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Carnie, Andrew. Chapter 9 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. 223-252.
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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? |
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.
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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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Haegeman, Liliane. Chapter 4 in Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 201-229.
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Binding vs. Coreference
Binding and Coreference in Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
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Guasti, Maria Teresa. Chapter 8 in Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. 271-308.
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Is it Real? |
Hendrick, R., and P. C. Gordon. "Intuitive Knowledge of Linguistic Coreference." In Cognition 62. Pp. 325-370. |
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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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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. |
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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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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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Covert Movement and "Logical Form"
WH-movement in Japanese/Chinese-type languages
Adjuncts vs. Arguments
Covert Movement
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Haegeman, Liliane. Chapter 9 in Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Sections 1-2.3.3. Pp. 485-507. |
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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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