-Readings for Sept. 4: Syntactic Structures Revisited
to page 35
Syntactic Structures to page
33 [Please bring these 2 books to class]
HW #1 Due Sept. 11
-Readings for Sept. 11 Syntactic Structures Revisited
to page 49
Syntactic Structures
to page 48
[Suggested readings: Syntactic Structures
Ch. 6; Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Ch. 1] [[For the formally inclined,
you can find the 1977 Lasnik and Kupin revision of the LSLT theory of PS here
(pp.174-179) ]
Class notes for Sept.
11
-Readings for Sept. 18
Syntactic Structures Revisited to page 105
Syntactic Structures Chapter 7
HW#1 revision due (optional!) Sept. 18 [HW
revision policy]
HW#2 Due Sept. 25
-Readings for Sept. 25
Syntactic Structures Revisited to page 165
A Course in GB Syntax pp.1-5
-Readings for Oct. 9
"Case and Passives"
Handout
Lasnik and Uriagereka A Course in GB Syntax Ch.1, Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4,
1.5, 1.6
[Suggested reading: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Chapters 2-3]
[Suggested reading: Chomsky Lectures on Government and Binding Ch. 2, Sections
2.1-2.3]
[Suggested reading: Lasnik 1981 "Restricting
the Theory of Transformations" (= Ch. 5 of Lasnik Essays on Restrictiveness
and Learnability]
[[And here are some of the things I mentioned in class:
Ross
(1969) Auxiliaries as Main Verbs
McCawley
(1992) A Note on Auxiliary Verbs and Language Acquisition
Lasnik
(2006) Conceptions of the Cycle
HW#3 Due Oct. 23
[[Some things I mentioned in class:
Chomsky (1970) "Remarks
on Nominalization"
Vergnaud (1977)
Letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik
Lasnik (in press) "On
the development of Case theory"]]
-Readings for Oct. 23
Case Theory and Theta Theory:
-Lasnik and Uriagereka
EPP 1.9 (pp.27-29)
PRO 2.2 (pp.48-50)
Problems with the Case Filter 6.1 (pp.144-146)
- Chomsky (1995) Chapter 1
Case 1.4.3 (pp.110-124)
Lexicon 1.2 (pp.30-33)
Lasnik (in press) "On the development
of Case theory"
Review paper asignment
Due Nov. 8
-Readings for Oct. 30
Binding Theory:
-Lasnik and Uriagereka Chap. 2
-Chomsky (1995) Chap. 1, 1.4.2 (pp. 92-110) [You might find it useful
in the next couple of weeks to read this whole chapter.]
-Lasnik, H. 1994. "Noam
Chomsky on Anaphora"
-Handout summarizing the development
of binding theory 1973-1986
[For those who are interested: History
of BT HO from Nanzan U. course; and here's my
1981 paper on the interpretation of indices.]