Week by week readings
Jan. 24 Ross (1969) "Guess Who"
Jan. 31- Feb. 21 (Feb. 14 was a snow day)
Grimshaw (1979) "Complement
Selection and the Lexicon"
Grinder and Postal
(1971) "Missing Antecedents"
Wasow (1972) Anaphoric
Relations in English MIT diss. Ch.3
Lasnik (2007) "On
Ellipsis: The PF Approach to Missing Constituents"
Feb. 28-March 7 Island
violation repair
March 14 Island violation non-repair?
March 28 P-stranding. Swiping.
April 4 More on identity (especially
about Warner's observation); more on Swiping
[Here's Jeremy Hartman's honors thesis
with important new discussion of Swiping]
April 11 More discussion of alternative treatments
of Warner's observation. [Here's Goldberg's
thesis on VP ellpsis with V stranding.] Discussion of Swiping; {Here's
the Du Plessis squib on P-stranding
in intermediate Comp.}
April 18 More on successive cyclicity in Sluicing.
Aguero-Bautista's paper on this is in the course box. Flash! Now available
in e-form (pre-final, so
please do not circulate). [The argument is based on WH-Q
interactions.]
April 25 More on the bound
pronoun exemption to clause-mate requirements. More on successive cyclicity
in Sluicing. Multiple Sluicing in English (HO
(corrected version) and ms.).
May 2 More on Sluicing and successive cyclicity
May 9 Multiple Sluicing. Traces, identity
and ellipsis. HO: Repair of EPP violations?
Lasnik&Park LI paper
Lecture:
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
1108B MMH
Howard Lasnik, instructor
1106 Marie Mount Hall
<lasnik [AT] UMD [DOT] edu>
(301) 405-4929
Office hours:
Monday afternoons & evenings
Thursday all day (until 5:00)
Course description
Issues in Ellipsis
Subject matter:
-The nature of ellipsis: PF deletion or LF copying or WYSIWYG?
-The proper formulation of the 'identity' requirement: semantic, formal, some
combination?
-Repair by ellipsis: What kinds of violations can/can't be repaired by ellipsis?
And implications for the architecture of the grammar.
We will look at some of the older literature on these questions (e.g., Ross
on Sluicing, Sag's thesis, May's book) and, of course, more recent stuff,
by Merchant, by me, and by others.
More info to follow.
Course requirements
-Three installments of class notes: a joint enterprise with all students
deciding how to divide up the work.
NEW: The final version of the student class notes project can be found
here.
-A proposal for a paper on a topic in ellipsis, summarizing the problem, presenting
key data, and giving relevant bibliography.