Week
1.
Week of Jan 17th |
Background to Syntactic
Theory
Reading: Radford (1997) Chapter 1 “Grammar”
Cowper (1992) Chapter 1 “The Theory in Context”
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Week 2.
Week of Jan 24th
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Issues in diagnosing
sentence structure
Reading: Radford (1997) Pgs 61-81
Radford (1988) Pgs 167-196
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Week
3-4
Weeks of
Jan 31st / Feb 7th
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(Ash Wed – we need
to negotiate make-up lectures)
Review: Binding Theory, X-bar Theory, Theta Theory
Carnie Chapters 4 (Binding), 5 & 6 (X-bar),
7 (Theta)
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Week 5
Weeks of
Feb 14th
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Head-to-Head Movement
Carnie Chapter 8. This is an introduction to transformations,
where V moves to T, and T moves to C. French and
English adverbial and negative placement, and
the VSO order in Irish are discussed. Here, you
will also learn about the VP-internal subject
hypothesis.
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Week 6-7
Weeks of
Feb21st / Feb 28th
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NP/ DP Movement
Carnie Chapter 9. Passives, subject-to-subject
Raising and Case Theory.
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Week 6.
Weeks of Feb 21st |
•Movement in passivization
Movement in question-asking
Reading: Fabb Chapter 10
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Week 7
Week of Feb 28th |
•Embedded sentences
(basic concepts)
Reading: Fabb Chapter 7
Introduction to X-Bar Theory – Handouts
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Week 8-9
Weeks of Mar 7th / Mar 14th
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Raising, Control and
Empty Categories
Carnie Chapter 10. Here you will be introduced to
the distinctions between raising and control constructions,
between subject-to-subject raising and subject-to-object
raising, between obligatory and optional control,
and between subject control and object control.
Outlines of your essays must be discussed with
me at the very latest during the week of Mar 14th.
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Weeks 10-11
Weeks of Mar 21st / Apr 4th
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Wh-movement
Carnie Chapter 11. The main focus here is on locality
conditions, in particular bounding theory.
(SEMESTER BREAK Mar 27th – Apr 3rd)
Essays are due Friday Apr 8th at 1pm
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Week 12
Week of Apr 11th
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Towards Minimalism
Carnie Chapter 12. Here you will be taken in the
direction of Minimalist ideas.
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Week 13
Week of Apr 18th
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Wrap-up and Review
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