Linguistics 221: Syntax A

Fall Quarter 2007

MW 2-3:45 PM, The Cave

Syntax A is the first course in the three-quarter graduate introduction to syntactic theory. The focus in this course is on phrase structure, lexicon, argument structure and selection, and constructions and processes that are sensitive to grammatical relations such as subject and object.

Syllabus

Frampton squib

Fox & Pesetsky

Frampton, Gutmann, Legate, & Yang

Assignment 5

Hale & Keyser: There-Insertion Unaccusatives

Chris Potts Naturally Spotted Sympathies

Chomsky 1977 "on WH Movement" will appear here shortly. THere is no written assignment associated with this reading, but it is expected that you will get several squib topics out of this.

On WH-Movement