Linguistics 604: Syntactic Theory

Spring 2010
Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:15
Hasbrouck Lab 104b
Kyle Johnson
124 South College
Office Hours: Wednesday, 9:00-11:00
545.6840
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January 19


January 21

Calibration Exercise
 
Determiner Phrases
Background Reading: Abney (1987)
2 January 26


January 28
Number Phrase
Nouns
3 February 2



February 4
Nominal Complements
Reading: Kayne (1984)

Structure of Complementation
Background Reading: Larson (1988)
Background Reading: Johnson (1991)
4 February 9


February 11
Structure of Complementation
Lexical Decomposition
5 February 16

February 18
Monday Schedule

Inaudabilia
6 February 22



February 23



February 25
Causatives
Applicatives
The Dative Decomposition
7 March 2

March 4
No Class

No Class
8 March 8


March 9


March 11


The Dative Alternation
Resultatives again
Clauses and VPE
Position Paper topic due
spring break
9 March 23


March 25
QR and ACD
Reading: Fox (2002)

Copies
10 March 30


April 1
Reconstruction
Movement
11 April 6


April 8
Types of Movement
Linearization
Rough Draft of paper due
12 April 13


April 15
Taming the LCA
Reading: Zwart (1997)

Word Order Typology
13 April 20


April 22

Weakening the LCA
Prosody and Linearization
14 April 27

April 29
Multidominance
Multidominance: Reconstruction
15 May 4
Play in the Park
paper due