Language and its Structure II: Syntax

Lecture Notes

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