Language and its Structure II: Syntax

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	The Hierarchical Organization of Language
2	More on Building Syntactic Trees; Plus Locality Considerations; Theta-Roles
3	More on Theta-Roles; Case; Basics of Binding Theory
4	Binding Theory; Syntactic Movement; Embedded vs. Matrix Questions and Wh-movement
5	Islands and Movement
6	Verb Movement
7	Verbs, Tense and Agreement
8	A-Movement
9	More on Movement
10	The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH)
11	Empirical Arguments for PRO
12	Obligatory and Non-obligatory Control
13	Pro versus PRO
14	Covert Movement
15	Tense and Aspect	Paper due three days after Session 15
16	Polysynthesis
17	Conditionals
18	Gerunds	Paper revision due one day after Session 18
19	Free Relatives
20	Review	Final exam four days after Session 20