Syllabus

Linguistics 111 -- Syntactic Structures			Spring 2012

MWF 8:00 - 9:10 AM
Stevenson 175

Jorge Hankamer	
	Office: 264 Stevenson College			Office hours
	email:  hank@ucsc.edu				W 12:30-1:30 TH 11-12

TAs:					Reader:

Andrea Thompson anlthomp@ucsc		Andrew Pedelty	apedelty@ucsc.edu
Kendra Buchanan knbuchan@ucsc

Sections:
		W  2-3:10		Stevenson 152	Anie Thompson
		TH 12-1:10		Stevenson 151	Jorge Hankamer
		TH 2-3:10		Stevenson 151	Kendra Buchanan

Course web page:	http://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/111/111.html

This course is an introduction to the study of syntactic structures
(i.e. the structure of sentences) in natural languages.  We will examine
syntactic structures in a number of languages, including English.  Our
goal will be to develop an understanding of syntactic structure in general,
and to become familiar with some of the ways of investigating it.

There is no textbook.  The course is based on a sequence of homework
problems, which will be assigned at the rate of about two per week.  They
will usually be due on Monday or Friday, though there may be some variation.
These problems constitute the main work of the course, and performance on
the problems is the main basis for the grade.  There will also be two
take-home exams, a midterm and a final.  Each will take about a week.
The mid-term and the final together will make up about one third of the
course grade.  See GENERIC ADVICE for generic advice.

There are no in-class exams, though there may be some (unannounced)
quizzes.  You will have to pass all of these quizzes to pass the course.

The general sequence of topics will be:

0.  Grammaticality and Grammar
1.  Lexicon, Phrase Structure, and Subcategorization
2.  Word Order Phenomena
3.  Syntactic Structure and Movement
4.  Passive Constructions in various languages
5.  Universal Grammar

Actually, there will be a lot more topics than that, and the sequence is fake.
But this is a syllabus.