Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language

Lecture Notes

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