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

Problem 1

Exercise 1

Problem 2

Barss and Lasnik 1986

Exercise 2

Problem 3

Pollock 1989

Iatridou 1990

Perlmutter: The Unaccusative Hypothesis

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Problem 4

Exercise 5

Problem 5

Exercise 6

Problem 6

Problem 7

Ross Cyclic Pronominalization

Problem 8

Icelandic

Chomsky 1977: On WH Movement

Potts: Parasitic gaps in the wild