522 Syllabus
Wednesdays, 2:30-4:45, Douglass 206
Spring, 2000
Who: Dr. Heidi Harley (http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh)
Office: Douglass 208
Email: hharley@u.arizona.edu
Phone: 626-3554
Course Location: Social Sciences 308
Office Hours: Monday, 2-3 pm, or by appointment
Course Home Page (you're here!): http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh/522
LinguistList bibliography of lexical semantics references
Location of Reserves: http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/polis/spring00/Course-Homesite.cgi?LING_522
Click on the appropriate date below to get to the lecture notes for that date.
All theories of grammar incorporate some type of lexicon: the most basic step in characterizing the sound-meaning pairing that constitutes language is to identify phonological strings with concepts. The structure of the lexicon and the type of operations that are included in it can vary widely from theory to theory. The relationship of the lexicon to the rest of the grammar is a central topic for any linguistic model, and we will look at the question from several angles: morphological, syntactic, psychological, semantic and cross-linguistic.
Course Requirements:
Graduate Students:
30 %: assignments
20 %: short paper (4-8 pages) Due: March 22nd, 1st class after spring break
10 %: class participation
10 %: presentation
30%: long paper (10-15 pages) Due: May 10th, first Wed. after last class
Undergraduates:
50 %: assignments
40 %: short paper (5-10 pages) Due: May 10th, first Wed. after last class
10 %: class participation
N.B. Both graduates and undergraduates may and are encouraged to turn in drafts of papers early, for comments and suggestions; the grade will be based on the final draft, which is due on the dates above.
Reading availability:
Readings will be placed in the shelves outside my office (Douglass 208, to the left) for photocopying; when you borrow them to copy, please (a) sign them out with the sign-out sheet and (b) return them as quickly as possible. They will also be available on line through the electronic reserve service of the library; when I get it arranged, I'll give you a password, and you will be able to log in to the web site and print out the paper, which the library will have scanned in. More on this next week.)
Approximate Schedule of Topics:
Basics: (Anti-)lexicalism, linking, semantic encoding
Jan. 12 Intro
Jackendoff: Semantics and Cognition. Lexical Semantics and Syntactic Structure. in Lappin, ed., The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, London. (carry over)
Levin, B. (1993) ``Introduction: The Theoretical Perspective'', in B. Levin, English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1-19.
Pustejovsky, J. (1995) Chapter 2 of ``The Generative Lexicon'' MIT Press
Marantz, Alec. 1997 "No escape from syntax: don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon.
Marantz, Alec. 1999. Lecture notes from morphology class
(Harley, H and R. Noyer, "Distributed Morphology," GLOT 4)
Jackendoff, Ray 1992. Chapter 1 of "Semantic Structures": Overview of conceptual semantics
Handed out: Assignment #1
Conceptual Structure: atomism vs. decomposition, semantic vs. syntactic bootstrappingg
Fodor, J.A., 1998. Chapter 3 of Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong. Oxford: Clarendon Press
L Gleitman, `The Structural Source of Verb Meanings', Language Acquisition, Vol. 1(1), pp. 3-55, 1990
Gropen, Jess, Steven Pinker, Michelle Hollander and Richard Goldberg, 1993, Affectedness and Direct Objects
Argument Structure, Linking
Dowty, D.R. (1991) ``Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection'', Language 67, 547-619.
Hale, Ken and Samuel Jay Kesyer The basic elements of argument structure
Hale, Ken and Samuel Jay Keyser On Argument Structure and the Lexical Expression of Syntactic Relations
Carter, Richard. On Linking
Handed out: Assignment #2
Bierwisch, Manfred, and Robert Schreuder. 1992. "From concepts to lexical items." Cognition 42, 23-60
Kiparsky, Paul. 1997. Remarks on Denominal Verbs. In Alex Alsina, JoanBresnan & Peter Sells (eds.) Complex Predicates, 473-499. Stanford: CSLIPublications.
Harley, Heidi. 1999. "Denominal verbs and aktionsart".
Fodor, J.A. and Ernie Lepore, also Hale, Ken and Samuel Jay Keyser "Impossible Words?" and Response
Event structure
Dowty, David R. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Reidel, Dordrecht. Chapter 2: The Semantics of Aspectual Classes of Verbs in English. 37-132.
Jackendoff, R. 1991 'Parts and Boundaries' Cognition 41 (same as Levin&Pinker edited volume, cited above)
Levin, B. and M. Rappaport Hovav (1991) ``Wiping the Slate Clean: A Lexical Semantic Exploration'', Cognition 41, 123-151. (same as Levin&Pinker edited volume, cited above)
Mar. 1 Dr. Harley gone. Guest lecture?
Mar. 8 Dr. Harley gone. Guest lecture?
Mar 15 Break
Causation, external arguments
Wunderlich, Dieter. 1997. Cause and the Structure of Verbs. LinguisticInquiry 28.1: 27-68
Kratzer, Angelika. 1996. Severing the External Argument from its Verb.In Johan Roorijck & Laurie Zaring (eds.), Phrase-Structure and the Lexicon, 109-137. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Fodor, J.A. 1971 .Why "kill" doesn't mean "cause to die"
(cf. Jackendoff's discussion of decomposition)
Pesetsky, David 1995. Chapter 2 of "Zero Syntax": Linking Problems with Experiencer Predicates
Harley, H. Possession and the double object construction, ms.
April 5 GUEST LECTURE: Montse Sainz on Spanish telicity
Naming, Lexicalizaiton patterns
April 12 GUEST LECTURE: Massimo P-P on Fodorian atomism
Talmy, L., 1985. Lexicalization patterns: semantic structure in lexical forms. In T. Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Vol.3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon, 57-149. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bloom, Paul. 1994. Possible names: The role of syntax-semantics mappings in the acquisition of nominals. Lingua 92:297-329. (acquisition)
Presentations
April 26
May 3
Wierzbicka, A. 1988. What's in a Noun? Chapter 9 of The Semantics of Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Harley, Heidi Chapter 3 Section 2 of "Subjects, Events and Licensing"