24.952 | Spring 2007 | Graduate

Advanced Syntax

Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
1-2 Covert movement and logical form (PDF)
3-4 Reconstruction and logical form (PDF)
5 Wh-movement: Islands, barriers and successive-cyclicity

Part 1 (PDF)

“On Wh-Movement” (PDF) (Courtesy of David Pesetsky. Used with permission.)

6 Wh-movement: Islands, barriers and successive-cyclicity (cont.) Part 2 (PDF)
7 Wh-movement: Islands, barriers and successive-cyclicity (cont.) Part 3 (PDF)
8 Superiority, probes and goals (PDF)
9 Superiority, probes and goals (cont.)  
10-11 Remnant movement, derivations, probes and goals  
12-13 Weak islands and relativized minimality (PDF)
14-17 Phases, barriers, and spell-out

Main points (PDF)

Minimalist inquiries (PDF) (Courtesy of David Pesetsky. Used with permission.)

Derivation by phase (PDF) (Courtesy of David Pesetsky. Used with permission.)

Cyclic linearization (PDF)

Holmberg’s generalization (PDF)

18-19 Wh-movement: Pied-piping  
20-22 A vs. A-bar movement and scrambling (PDF)
23-24 Gapping  
25-26 Parasitic gaps  

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