Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language

Calendar

Lec #	TOPICS	kEY DATES
1	Nature of Optional Movement
2	Nature of Optional Movement (cont.)
3	The EPP, Agreement and Focus I
4	The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to Bantu
5	The EPP, Agreement and Focus III: Questioning (Certain) parametric variations: wh-movement vs. wh-in-situ, agreement vs. nonagreement
6	EPP, Syntactic Locality, and Floated Quantifiers
7	Scrambling and QR: QR is Scrambling
8	Weak Islands, Intervention Effect
9	A-chain in Acquisition
10	Agreement, Case, and Verbal Morphology: ga/no Conversion and Related Issues
11	Noun Phrase Ellipsis	Final presentations
12	Noun Phrase Ellipsis (cont.) DP Structure	Final presentations
13	Make-up Class: -Wa, -Ga	Final presentations and final paper due