For a syllabus and further links relevant to class lecture and discussion, see below.
Requirements
- Do the readings before class, come to class, and participate in discussion.
- 2 more things:
- A traditional squib-length paper, analyzing something having to do with filler-gap dependencies and giving arguments for preferring a proposed analysis to alternatives from the literature; and
- Identification of an issue related to filler-gap dependencies that is in need of experimental investigation, together with a detailed proposal for an experiment.
- There will be some shorter written assignments (probably four of them) during the quarter.
Syllabus (Dates are links)
| Monday | Wednesday |
| Jan 9 Introduction to LDDs |
Jan 11 Ross on Island Constraints. The A-over-A Principle. |
| Jan 16 Martin Luther King Day: No Class |
Theory
Jan 18 The (Revised) Extended Standard |
| Jan 23 Cross-Language Variation 1: The Accessibility Hierarchy. | Jan 25 Taking Stock. Explaining Island Constraints |
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Jan 30 LDDs in GB 1 |
Feb 1 LDDs in GB 2 |
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Feb 6 Cross-Language Variation 2: Sensitivity to Extraction Domains |
Feb 8 LDDs in GPSG |
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Feb 13 Crossover Constraints |
Feb 15 Parasitic Gaps |
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Feb 20 Presidents' Day: No Class |
Feb 22 Evidence for Traces? |
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Feb 27 D-Linking? |
Feb 22 Evidence for Traces? |
| Mar 5 LDDs in Categorial Grammar |
Mar 7 LDDs in HPSG |
| Mar 12 Semantic/Pragmatic/Processing Factors |
Mar 14 Processing Factors |
Last Updated: Jan 9 2012