IMPORTANT NOTICE: Starting Oct. 23, the Thursday sessions will meet from 11:10-12:10.
Previous Weeks
-Readings for Oct. 21-28
Case Theory and Theta Theory:
-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
Case 1.4.3 (pp.110-124)
Lexicon 1.2 (pp.30-33)
Lasnik (2008) "On the development
of Case theory"
Here's the McCloskey
squib on expletives and agreement.
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
->HW#3 revision due Oct. 28
->Review paper asignment
Due Nov. 6
-Readings for Nov. 4
-Lasnik (1981) "On
two recent treatments of disjoint reference"
[Here's the partial
response to Gareth Evans I mentioned in class.]
->HW#4 Due Nov.
11
-Readings for Nov. 11
Subjacency handout
Lasnik and Saito 1992
Move Alpha pp.69-75
ECP handout
Lasnik and Uriagereka Chap. 4
Squib assignment One page 'proposal'
due Tues. Nov. 25;
Paper due Thursday, December 4
HW#5 Due Dec. 2
[Here's the paper I mentioned on formal
and functional approaches to locality of movement.]
[Here's a paper about EPP and
successive cyclic A-movement.]
[Lasnik and Uriagereka 1988 has a discussion of parasitic gaps in Chapter
3.]
[Lasnik and Uriagereka 1988 has very brief discussions of tough-movement and
of Weak Crossover in Chapter
6.]
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 afternoons & evenings
Tuesday mornings
Wednesday mornings & afternoons
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[[Currently out of print,
but Amazon seems to have some copies; otherwise I will make the book available
in the department pdf locker.]]
-Lasnik 1999 Minimalist Analysis (selected portions) Blackwell 978-0631210948