Linguistics 114-115: Syntax III-IV

Winter and Spring Quarters 2011

Winter: MWF 2-3:10, Cowell 216 Spring: MW 12:15-1:45, The Cave

This course is a capstone course in the syntax sequence. The work for the course consists of homework problems, readings, maybe a couple of squibs, and a term paper. And then some more readings, some more problems, some more squibs, and maybe another term paper. The course will pursue interesting theories and phenomena that are accessible after the completion of Syntax I and II.

Instructors: Jorge Hankamer & Jim McCloskey

SYLLABUS

Comments on Assignment 1 Greenbaum & Quirk chs. 5 & 6 Assignment 2 Assignment 2 Feedback Assignment 3 Assignment 3 Feedback Assignment 4 Assignment 5 Hankamer and Sag 1976 Assignment 6 Moulton Sluicing Handout Assignment 6 Feedback Assignment 7 Assignment 8 Ross: Gapping and the Order of Constituents Eisenberg squib Assignment 8 Feedback McCloskey "The Shape of Irish Clauses"

SYNTAX IV SYLLABUS

Unaccusative Hypothesis

Irish Problem

Burzio Chapter

Burzio Followup

Breckenridge 1-4 Breckenridge 5

Icelandic Problem

Sympathy

Parasitic gaps in the wild

Engdahl: Parasitic Gaps