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

Exercise 1

Problem 1

Exercise 2

Problem 2

Exercise 3

Problem 3

Exercise 4

Problem 4

Perlmutter: The Unaccusative Hypothesis

Exercise 5

Problem 5

Problem 6

Problem 7

Problem 8

Exercise 8