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Formal Syntax Syllabus |
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Course Outline |
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Linguistics 620 |
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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 |