Linguistics 114		Syntax 3		Fall quarter 2013

Syllabus

Instructor:	Jorge Hankamer
Office		Stevenson 264
Office Hours	TTH 12-1
Email		hank@ucsc.edu
Course web page	http://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/114.html

TTh 2-3:45, The Shack

Strictly speaking, there is no syllabus for Linguistics 114 (Syntax 3).
Students are not supposed to know what the topics and assignments are
in advance; they are to be surprised from time to time.

Prerequisites for this course are Syntax 1 and 2, which develop an
understanding of generative grammar and how to investigate syntactic
structures, using the standard intuitive methods.  In terms of syntactic
theory, students will be well versed in X-bar theory as a theory of Phrase
Structure, and transformational analyses of A and A-bar movement constructions.
They not not know a lot about pronouns and anaphora, or ellipsis, though of
course they have seen these things.  They will all also have had some phonology
and some semantics.

The course involves some problems and some readings.  At about the midpoint
of the course the students will have read David Permutter's Impersonal Passives
and the Unaccusative Hypothesis and have had to translate the analysis into our
current (pre-GB) framework.  After that they will have a problem set on
parasitic gaps, and another one on comparatives.  Later in the course we look
at some ellipsis.  Also there will be some Distributed Morphology, and probably
some exposure to non-movement frameworks like GPSG, HPSG, LFG.
Some of the above is a lie, but we don't yet know which parts.