LING819
Seminar in Syntactic Theory: Quantification and Anaphora
Spring 2016

Week by week:
Jan. 27   Overview and survey.  Some background: Reader's Digest version of May's thesis; HO on history of Binding Theory
Feb. 3     No class - Baggett Lecture
Feb. 10-17   Transformational treatments of pronouns, reflexives, and control: More investigation of pros and cons, and early alternatives; Strong Crossover
     Lees and Klima (1963) "Rules for English Pronominalization"  
     McCawley (1967) "Where Do Noun Phrases Come From" pp. 181-182 are particularly relevant, but the whole article is well worth reading.
      Postal (1970) "On Coreferential Complement Subject Deletion" [[This is pretty long; just try to get the basic gist.]]
      Postal (1971) Crossover Phenomena  Part III
      Jackendoff (1972) Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar Chapters 4 and 5 [[At least skim them]] Ch. 4 is here; Ch. 5 is here.
       At least browse Wasow's diss., chapters 1, 2, and 4. 
     Lasnik and Funakoshi (in press) "Condition C Violations and Strong Crossover"
Feb. 24-March 2     Weak Crossover (after we finish SCO, which I now realize will take most of Feb. 24)
     Lasnik (1994) "Operators and Obviation"
     Lasnik and Uriagereka (1988) A Course in GB Syntax, chapter 3.
     Chaomsky (1982) Some Concepts and Consequences ... chapters 3 and 4.
     Chomsky (1976) "Conditions on Rules of Grammar"  pp. 199-204
     Koopman and Sportiche (1982) "Variables and the Bijection Principle"
    Safir (1984) "Multiple Variable Binding"
March 9   Plenty of stuff left over from last time!
March 23  Ditto!
     HO on WH-Q interactions
March 30  Finish WCO discussion; continue WH-Q interction discussion, especially with respect to the bound pronoun loophole. On the latter, here are some HOs and readings:
     Bound pronouns HO;  UMass HO;  Grano-Lasnik ms.
April 6   Lots more discussion of the bound pronoun loophole.
              ACD if there's time.
April 13 Paper proposal due. (Just a couple of pages with the phenomenon you plan to investigate, and a bit of bibliography. Send it to me as a pdf, so I can easily send back comments.)
April 13  More on ACD. Here is some of the classic literature: article by Bouton introducing the topic; Sag's thesis pp. 45-50 and 79-81; and pp. 11-14 of May's 1985 book Logical Form.
April 20 "Quantifier Lowering" and its interactions with anaphor binding. HO on QL;   May (1977) thesis 188-204; Lebeaux's original article; May Logical Form 97-105. Lasnik (2012) .  Fox (1999); Lasnik&Funakoshi (On single tree condition).
April 27-May 4  Student presentations
May 4  "Linking Theory", Higginbotham's 1983 alternative to Binding Theory. For summary and discussion, see Chapter 5.2 of Lasnik and Uriagereka (1988).

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