LING403/503 Foundations of Syntax I
Fall 2002
Where: Econ 308, T/Th 11-12:15
Handouts, lecture notes: Click on the number/topic to download a .pdf file of the handout for that topic.
Lecture 1: Language instinct, competence/performance, innateness
Lecture 2: Phrase structure, headedness
Lecture3: More phrase structure, x-bar theory
Lecture 4: Categories, c-command
Lecture 5: X-bar theory, movement
Lecture 6: Movement
Lecture 7: SPC, BPS, overview
Lecture 8: V2, English T
Lecture 9: subjects
Lecture 10: overview, abstract Case
Lecture 11: OQ blitz
Lecture 12: EPP, subcategorization, McCloskey take one
Lecture 13: McCloskey take two
Lecture 14: PRO
Lecture 15: Wh-movement, take one
Lecture 16: Wh-movement take two
Lecture 17: Wh-movement -- wh-in situ lgs
Lecture 18: Wh-movement, take four
Lecture 19: Quantifier Raising, Antecedent Contained Deletion
Homeworks:
HW1: innateness, English change, German
HW2: x-bar trees, negative polarity
HW3: of, Shakespearean parameters
HW4: Case, binding, theta grids
HW5: Unaccusatives: English, Hebrew, Hiaki
HW6: Wh-movement
Paper to read for Homework 6: Cole and Herman on Malay
Useful/Interesting Links:
UA Library's links to article indexes for Linguistics
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/F.shtml#Linguistics_--_Major_Indexes
Page on 3rd sg. neuter uses of they and their: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
Heidi's home page: http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh/
The Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/
Snippets, an on-line journal of interesting syntactic and semantic tidbits (each only 1-2 pages long, usually reporting some new fact, pattern or small piece of argumentation, often written by graduate students): http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/