No class Thursday Nov. 25 (Thanksgiving)
(Previous weeks)
-Readings for Oct. 19
-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:
---Lexicon 1.2 (pp.30-33)
---D-Structure 1.3.2 (pp. 50-64)
---Case 1.4.3 (pp.110-124)
--Lasnik (2008) "On
the Development of Case Theory"
-> HW 3, due Tuesday Oct. 26
[Here's my 1981 paper 'Restricting
the Theory of Transformations', which develops a wish list theory of transformations
and applies it to the English auxiliary verb system.]
-Readings for Oct. 26 - Nov. 2
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
-Revision of HW 3, due Thurs. Nov. 4. [Optional, as usual, but recommended.
And don't forgot to give me the original version (with my comments) too.]
-Readings for Nov. 9
-Continue Binding Theory stuff
-Suggested reading: Lasnik
1981 "On Two recent Treatments of Disjoint Reference"
-> HW 4, due Tuesday Nov. 16
->Squib assignment 'Proposal' due Nov. 30; squib due Dec. 14.
-Readings for Nov. 16-30
WH-Movement and Bounding Theory:
Subjacency handout
Lasnik and Saito 1992 Move Alpha pp.70-75
ECP handout
'Brief Overview of Subjacency/Islands'
Lasnik and Uriagereka Chap. 4
Handout on Superiority and Relativized Minimality
-> HW 5 , due Tuesday Dec. 7
->Course evaluation site is open, now to Dec. 12
www.CourseEvalUM.umd.edu
-Readings for Dec. 7
Rizzi on Relativized Minimality
Chomsky (1995) section on Economy of Representation (150-154)
Chomsky (1995) section on Minimal Link Condition (294-297) and Attract/Move
(297-299)
Lasnik (2006) "Minimalism"
Tuesday 2:00-5:00
1108B MMH
Thursday 11:00-12:00
1108B MMH
1106 Marie Mount Hall
<lasnik [AT] UMD [DOT] edu>
(301) 405-4929
Office hours:
Monday evenings
Tuesday mornings
Wednesday mornings & afternoons
Thursday afternoons (until 4:00)
Subject matter
-The nature and source of syntactic knowledge
-Formalization of the infinitude of language
-Formalization of phrase structure
-Properties of syntactic transformations
-Syntactic information and lexical information
-The following phenomena will be examined in detail:
-English verbal morphology; main verbs vs. auxiliary verbs; development of
theories of these phenomena over the years, driven by considerations of explanatory adequacy. "Head movement"
-'Passive' and related phenomena, where an expression occurs in subject position
but is 'understood' in another.
("John was arrested") "A-movement"
-Relationship between these phenomena and (abstract) nominal morphology. "Case
theory"
-WH-movement and related phenomena ("Who did you see?") "A'-movement"
-Referential dependence, coreference, non-coreference. "Binding Theory"
-Locality constraints on A'-movement: islands; Subjacency; ECP
-Chomsky 1957 Syntactic Structures
Walter de Gruyter 978-3110172799
-Lasnik (with Depiante and Stepanov) 2000 Syntactic Structures Revisited
MIT Press 978-0-262-62133-5 [See below for compilation
of typo corrections]
-Chomsky 1995 The Minimalist Program (chapters 1 (and 2))
MIT Press 978-0262531283
-Chomsky 1965 Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Chapter 1 and other
selected portions)
MIT Press 978-0-262-53007-1
-Chomsky 1981 Lectures on Government and Binding (selected portions)
Walter de Gruyter 978-3110141313
-Lasnik and Uriagereka 1988 A Course in GB Syntax (selected portions)
MIT Press 978-0-262-62060-4[[Now out of print; I
will make the book available in the department pdf locker.]]
-Lasnik 1999 Minimalist Analysis (selected portions) Blackwell 978-0631210948