Take-home exam

The questions (with instructions) are here. Please return your answers to me by email no later than 23:59 on Friday, February 28.

Readings

• Chomsky, Noam. 1977. On wh- movement.
• Davies, William, and Stanley Dubinsky. 2004. The grammar of raising and control.
• Harley, Heidi, and Elizabeth Ritter. 2002. Person and number in pronouns: a feature-geometric analysis.
• Lasnik, Howard. 2013 Multiple sluicing in English?.
• Matsuoka, Mikinari. 2003. Two types of ditransitive constructions in Japanese.
• Merchant, Jason. 1999. The syntax of silence.
• Ross, John Robert. 1969. Guess who.
• Vassilieva, Masha, and Richard Larson. 2005 The semantics of the plural pronoun construction.
• Wurmbrand, Susanne. 2004 How complex are complex predicates?.

Week 13 (Feb. 6)

Required readings

• Szendrői, Kriszta. 2001. Focus and the phonology syntax interface. Doctoral dissertation, University College London.
• Zubizarreta, María Luisa. 1998. Focus, prosody, and word order. MIT Press.

Week 12 (Jan. 29)

Required reading

• Hankamer, Jorge, and Ivan Sag. 1976. Deep and surface anaphora. (Mariell Marent will present parts of it).

Additional readings

• Merchant, Jason. 1999. The syntax of silence. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Depiante, Marcela. 2000. The syntax of deep and surface anaphora. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Week 11 (Jan. 16)

Required reading

• Harley, Heidi, and Elizabeth Ritter. 2002. Person and number in pronouns: a feature-geometric analysis. Language 78.

Homework: Get it here. A model solution is available here.

Week 9 (Dec. 19)

Required reading

• van Urk, Coppe. 2010. Obligatory control: a movement and PRO approach.
• Landau, Idan. 1999. Elements of control
• Hornstein, Norbert. 1999. Movement and control

Additional readings

• Davies, William, and Stanley Dubinsky. 2006. The grammar of raising and control (Nataliia Vorona will present chapter 1).
• Landau, Idan. 2003. Movement out of control

Homework: Get it here. The solution is available here.

Week 7 & 8 (Dec. 5 & 12)

Required reading

• Freeze, Ray. 1993. Existentials and other locatives

Additional readings

• Richards, Norvin. 2004. An idiomatic argument for lexical decomposition. Taline Espindola will present it.
• Hale, Kenneth, and Samuel J. Keyser. 1993. Argument structure and the syntactic expression of lexical relations
• Pylkkänen, Liina. 2002. Introducing Arguments. Doctoral dissertation.

Homework: get it here. A solution will be posted on Thursday, December 12.

Week 6 (Nov. 28)

Required reading

• Harley, Heidi. 2004. If you have, you can give. (Josephin Lorenz will present it).

Additional readings

• Harley, Heidi. 1995. Subjects, events, and licensing. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
• McNally, Louise. 1992. VP coordination and the VP-internal subject hypothesis.
• von Stechow, Arnim. 1995. The different readings of wieder "again": a structural account.

Homework: no homework this week.

Week 5 (Nov. 21)

Reading

• Wurmbrand, Susi. 2004. Licensing Case.

Optional reading

• Holmberg, Anders. 2002. Scandinavian stylistic fronting (Philipp Gawlik will present sections 2 and 3).

Homework: get it here. A solution will be posted on Thursday, November 27.

Week 4 (Nov. 14)

Reading

• van Urk, Coppe, and Norvin Richards. 2012. Two components of long-distance extraction: successive cyclicity in Dinka. Ms., MIT.

Additional reading

• McCloskey, James. 2002. Resumption, successive cyclicity, and the locality of operations. Pages 184–191 will be presented by Anne Blumenthal.
• Legate, Julie. 2002. Some interface properties of the phase

Homework: get it here. A model solution is here.

Week 3 (Nov. 7)

Reading

• Landau, Idan. 2005. Chain resolution in Hebrew V(P) fronting.

Additional reading

• Bobaljik, Jonathan. 2002. A-chains at the PF interface.
• Nunes, Jairo. 2002. Linearization of chains and sideward movement, chapter 1.

Homework: get it here. A model solution is here.

Week 2 (Oct. 24)

Reading

• Biberauer, Theresa, Anders Holmberg, and Ian Roberts. 2010. A syntactic universal and its consequences.

Homework: get it here. A model solution is here.

Week 1 (Oct. 17)

Reading

• Chomsky, Noam. 1957. Syntactic Structures
• Kayne, Richard. 1994. The Antisymmetry of Syntax

Homework: get it here. A model solution is here.

General info

Pass requirements

Attendance and participation	10%
Paper presentation	20%
Weekly assignments	30%
Take-home final exam	40%
	100%

Syntax textbooks.

• Adger, David. 2003. Core Syntax
• Hornstein, Norbert, Kleanthes Grohmann, and Cedric Boeckx. 2006. Understanding Minimalism