Syntax A is the first course in the three-quarter graduate introduction to syntactic theory. The focus in this course is on phrase structure, lexicon, argument structure and selection, and constructions and processes that are sensitive to grammatical relations such as subject and object.

Syllabus

Exercise 1

Problem 1

Exercise 2

Problem 2

Pollock 1989

Iatridou 1990

Exercise 3

Problem 3

Exercise 4

Problem 4

Perlmutter: The Unaccusative Hypothesis

Exercise 5

Problem 5

Hornstein 1999

Exercise 6

Burzio Inversion Chapter

Problem 6

Problem 7

Exercise 8

Problem 8: Icelandic

Handout: German Impersonals and Expletives

Barss and Lasnik 1986

Hankamer and Mikkelsen ms.