LING 819G  Spring 2021
Seminar in Syntactic Theory: On Raising

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-Jan. 27  Overview and survey of the construction and ideas about it. A classic account: Rosenbaum pp. 59-66, 109-114; Postal Ch.1 and pp. 40-43; Davies and Dubinsky "Raising and Control" Sections 1-3.  [And if you are interested, here's a century old detailed discussionof the "accusative with infinitive" construction.]  Some Handouts.
<<Addendum: Pages from Aspects on 'persuade' vs. 'expect'.>>
-Feb. 3 Kiparsky and Kiparsky Fact sections 1, 3, 4; Postal Chapters 3-4; Chomsky 1973 "Conditions on Transformations" pp.249-250, 254; Chomsky 1981 LGB pp.97-100, 113-114; Chomsky 1986 Knowledge of Language pp.90-92    Some HOs for Feb. 3
<<Addendum: Partee on relative clause structure>>
-Feb. 10  Postal Ch. 2.4 (about Chomsky's 1973 proposal), Ch. 3 (old evidence for raising), Ch. 4 (new evidence for raising) Sections 4.1-4.3, 4.6, 4.11-4.12; Chomsky 1986 Knowledge of Language pp.90-92; Postal&Pullum 1988   Some HOs for Feb 10
<<Addendum: Grimshaw 1979 Complement Selection and the Lexicon
And I've fixed the HO on adverbs and adjacency>>
-Feb. 17  Continue Feb. 10 readings. Add Postal 4.4, 4.16; 2 reviews of Postal: Lightfoot's review of Postal (1974), Bach's review of Postal (1974)   Some HOs for Feb. 17
<Addendum: Chapter 3 of Bresnan 1972>
-Feb. 24  Read the previously assigned portions of Postal that you haven't read yet. Take at least a look at the 2 reviews of Postal; the Postal and Pullum article; and Bresnan Chapter 3. We will finish the HO labeled '2-10 notes on Postal 1974' (i.e., from p.11 on). Then we'll work through the handout '2-17 More Postal arguments'. And, in the unlikely event that there is still time, the HO 'Notes on Bresnan 1972, Ch. 3'. (All of these HOs are in the folders for previous weeks.) Some more HOs for Feb. 24
-March 3 We'll get to leftover stuff, including Lightfoot's review of Postal, and Bresnan Chapter 3; Postal pp.413-416 (on verb-particle ECM); Kuno (1976) <a revised version of the 1972 article that Postal cites> pp.23-29, 40-41; Postal 222-225 (on scope; this relates to one of Kuno's arguments). Some HOs for March 3
-March 10 Bresnan 1972 Ch.3; Bresnan 1976; Postal 1977 (a reply to Bresnan 1976); Zidani-Oraglu on Turkish ECM Some HOs for March 10
-March 17    NO CLASS  (spring break)
-Begin to plan your class presentation and paper. Send me a proposal by March 29 outlining your topic (anything connected with ECM type phenomena in any language). Include key examples/ generalizations and relevant bibliography. 2 to 3 pages is fine.
-March 24 Lasnik&Saito 1991 'On the Subject of Infinitives"; Koizumi thesis 1995, Chapters 2 and 5; Lasnik 1995 "A Note on Pseudogapping" pp.143-152.  Some HOs for March 24.
<<Addendum: du Plessis on Wh-Movement in Afrikaans; L. Davis 1984 thesis >>
-March 31 Lasnik 1995 "A Note on Pseudogapping" pp.143-152; Pillinger 1980 "Accusative-Infinitive in Latin"; Pages on ECM from L. Davis 1984; Hong&Lasnik 2010 (on ECM in Korean and English) <And here's an earlier paper, Hong 2002, that formed part of the basis for Hong&Lasnik.>
<Addendum: Brecht 1974 (on Russian vs. English and Latin)>
-April 7   Pages on ECM from L. Davis 1984; Hong&Lasnik 2010 (on ECM in Korean and English) ; Ochi 1999 thesis (Ch.3 on ga-no conversion); Lasnik 2002 on Clause-Mate Conditions; Fetters&White 2017 (an experimental investigation of pseudogapping and HNPS).     Some HOs for April 7
<<Addendum: 2 things that came up in class - Lasnik 1995 on verbal morphology; Chomsky 1986 on expletive replacement (mainly pp.179-181); Lasnik&Saito for ECM consequences of expletive replacement (p.335); den Dikken 1995 on the same; McCloskey 1991 against replacement of expletive 'it'.>>
-April 14  Hong&Lasnik 2010 (on ECM in Korean and English) ; Ochi 1999 thesis (Ch.3 on ga-no conversion); Fetters&White 2017 (an experimental investigation of pseudogapping and HNPS)    Some HOs for April 14
<<Addendum: Stowell 1982 "The Tense of Infinitives" ; Martin 2001 "Null Case and the Distribution of PRO"; Boskovic 1995 UConn diss.>>
-April 21 Ochi 1999 thesis (Ch.3 on ga-no conversion); Stowell 1982 "The Tense of Infinitives" ; Martin 2001 "Null Case and the Distribution of PRO";
<<We might also take a look at Boskovic 1995 UConn diss. Sections 2.1-2.3 and Section 3.3; and Brecht 1974 (on Russian vs. English and Latin)  WELL, we didn't get to them, but both works are very interesting. I encourage you to take a look.>>    Some HOs for April 21
<<Addendum: Murasugi diss. See 3.4 for the bare IP relative clause hyppothesis. >>
-April 28  Student presentations. Maša; Aliaksei  <<Handout on Boskovic's discussion of French infinitivals.>>
<<Here are 2 interesting papers we would have discussed if I hadn't run out of time: Neeleman&Payne 2020 "On Matrix-Clause Intervention in Accusative-and- Infinitive Constructions"; Wurmbrand 2019 "Cross-clausal A-dependencies". The 1st of these gives an extraposition account of the word order arguments for raising. The 2nd looks at a variety of cross-clausal A-dependencies across finite boundries in a bunch of languages.>>
-May 5 Student presentations: Justin; Polina
-May 14 PAPERS DUE  Send a pdf by e-mail.