Syllabus

Linguistics 222 -- Syntax B				Winter Quarter 2022
Course website: http://ucsc.edu/~hank/222.html

TTh 9:50 - 11:25 AM
Porter 250		(Virtual by Zoom for at least January)

Jorge Hankamer	
	Office: 264 Stevenson				Office hours
	email:  hank@ucsc.edu				M 2-3, Th 12-1

The general topic of Syntax B is A-bar movement: phenomena, analysis,
mechanisms, and constraints.

The work for this course will be a mix of homework problems, readings,
a squib or two, and a term paper.  The sequence of topics is roughly:

Basics: X-bar theory, selection, head movement.
WH-movement in questions.  Pied piping, superiority, successive cyclic movement;
islands.
Relative clauses.
Topicalization.
Parasitic gaps.

The term paper will be developed during the second half of the course:
topic selected at about week 5, progress report in week 7, presentation in
week 10, and a final paper due at the end of finals week.