Syntax Reading Course, Fall 2012

Meeting Time TH 12-2, Cowell Senior Common Room

This reading course will provide a sampling of syntactic theory and analysis from the beginnings of generative grammar to the present.

Syllabus

Meeting times

Syntactic Structures

Aspects, ch.3

Perlmutter: The Two Verbs Begin

Chomsky's review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior

Ross 1967

Remarks on Nominalization

Emonds 1972

Ross 1967: Cyclic Pronominalization

Kayne 1970: Pronominalization Paradox

Bach 1970: Problominalization

Gazdar 1980

Pollock 1989

Iatridou 1990

Chomsky 1969

Studies Out in Left Field

More Studies Out in Left Field

Lasnik & Stowell 1991: Weakest Crossover

Postal 1993: Remarks on Weak Crossover

McCloskey 2011: The Shape of Irish Clauses

Hankamer 2011: Auxiliaries and Negation in English

Pullum 1982: Syncategorematicity and English Infinitival 'to'