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Language and its Structure II: Syntax

Subject: Language

Art: Raphael, Italian: Scuola di AteneThe School of Athenstitle…, 1509 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. David Pesetsky
Term: Fall 2003
Level: Undergraduate
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Lecture 1: From Words to Phrases The Big Picture: Three Examples The Cinque Hierarchy Greenberg Universals Parameters ( wh -movement)

Lecture 2: Constituent Structure and Tests for Constituent Structure Sentence Fragments, Movement, Ellipsis, Anaphora as Tests for Constituency X-bar Theory: Heads θ-roles Complements and Modifiers Specifiers

Lecture 3: The ‘Sisterhood Condition on Selection’, and Some Consequences Implications for Acquisition Modification of the Sisterhood Condition gives the Notion “Head” CP and IP Apparent Deviations from the Sisterhood Condition due to Movement. “Scrambling” in Japanese

Lecture 4: The Architecture of the Grammar The Rule Move : Scrambling in Japanese What’s Universal? The UTAH Condition on Thematic Role Assignment

Lecture 5: Head Movement Apparent Deviations from the Sisterhood Condition in Verb-second languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Vata…) Verb Movement to I in French VSO Languages (Irish, Welsh…) and the VP-internal Subject Hypothesis

Lecture 6: The English Verb System

Lecture 7: Case Theory Morphological Case Systems Case Theory and the Distribution of Complements

Lecture 8: DP vs. Non-DP; V&P vs. N&A English as a Case Language!

Lecture 9: A-Movement Passive Sentences and Raising to Subject Passive in the Clause and in NP Long-distance Passive vs. Control (PRO) Subject Control vs. Object Control

Lecture 10: Unaccusativity The 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law Ne -cliticization in Italian and Other Tests for Unaccusativity

Lecture 11: How Well Can We Predict Unaccusativity from Lexical Semantics?

Lecture 12: Coreference and Constituent Structure Principle A, Principle B, Principle C Coreference, Binding and Disjoint Reference Governing Category Long-distance Reflexives in Dutch and Chinese

Lecture 13: Binding vs. Coreference Binding and Coreference in Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

Lecture 14: Is it Real?

Lecture 15: A-Bar Movement Wh -movement as Movement to Spec, CP I-to-C Movement and Wh -movement in Questions and Relative Clauses.

Lecture 16: Wh -phrases Doubly-Filled Comp filter Relative Clauses The Model of Grammar: “Superiority Effects” and “Tucking In”.

Lecture 17: Island Phenomena; the “Subjacency Condition”

Lecture 18: Incorporation The Condition on Extraction Domains (CED) Incorporation (Mohawk, Chichewa, Southern Tiwa)

Lecture 19: Covert Movement and “Logical Form” WH-movement in Japanese/Chinese-type Languages. Adjuncts vs. Arguments. Covert Movement

Lecture 20: Ellipsis and Quantifier Raising Quantifier Raising, VP-ellipsis, Antecedent-Contained Deletion

Lecture 21: The Architecture of the Grammar The “Minimalist Program”