Formal Syntax Syllabus

Course Outline

Linguistics 620

Day

Reading

Assignment

Lecture

Background

Tue Jan 27 Chap 1 and 2 and 3. Attribute Value Structures. Syntactic representations richer than trees. Assignment: 4.12 (p. 122) 1 A., B., C., D.; 2 A.,B.,C; 3; 7 Lec 3, Lec 4, Lec 5.  
Tue Feb 03 Chap 4 & 5. Features. Complex features Semantics.   Lec 6, Lec 7, Lec 8, Lec 8 (ctd.).  
Tue Feb 10 Chap 6 & 7. Grammar architecture.   Lec 9, Lec 10, Lec 11.  
Tue Feb 17 Chap 8 & Ch 10. Lexical rules and Passive.   Lec 12, Lec 13, Lec 14.  
Tue Feb 24 Chap 11 & 12. Control, Raising. Head "movement".   Pollard on Head Movement Kim and Sag: French and English Negation. Mueller's Diss Kathol & Pollard"  
Tue Mar 03 Chap 14. Long Distance Dependencies. Subject gaps.   Lec 18, Lec 19.  
Tue Mar 10   Assignment: LFG problems. Latin Problem Steven Wechsler's intro problem. Reading: Carnie, LFG Chapter, Bresnan, Joan and Kaplan, Ron. "... Formal System..." (ECR) Password needed!  
Tue Mar 17     Reading: Bresnan, Joan. "Pronoun Incorporation and Agreement" (ECR)  
Tue Mar 24     Reading: Ideas for paper topics  
Tue Mar 31 H'day H'day H'day H'day
Tue Apr 07     HPSG Binding Theory (Revised) Typological diversity in Binding. Manning and Sag (1998) LFG, HPSG: Japanese causatives Manning, Sag, and IIda (1998)  
Tue Apr 14     A problem with Classifiers: Roger Levy & David Oshima (HPSG) French complex Predicates (HPSG) Manning on clitics  
Tue Apr 21     Reading: Zaenen and Kaplan. "West Germanic Word Order" (ECR)  
Tue Apr 28     HPSG: Reape and Pollard: connections Syntax w/o S-structure The power of extraposition