Linguistics 114: Syntax III

Winter Quarter 2008

TTh 8-9:45 AM, Cowell 113

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

Instructor: Jorge Hankamer

SYLLABUS

Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3

Assignment 4 Assignment 5

Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

Assignment 7 Assignment 8 Assignment 9 Assignment 10

Why there are two than's in English

Parasitic Gaps

Guess Who?

Expletive Infixation

Quasi-Performatives

Assignment 11