Processing Accounts for Island Constraints

Linguistics LSA-344:
Processing Accounts for Island Constraints

http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/LSA344

Instructor Information:

	Robert Kluender	Office: Bldg. 460, Room 103. Tel: 723-1578

Office Hours: TBA and by appointment	Email: kluender at ling period ucsd period edu

	Ivan A. Sag	Office: Bldg. 460, Room 103. Tel: 723-1578
Office Hours: TBA and by appointment	Email: sag at csli period stanford period edu

Class Information:

Room: Bldg. 460 (Margaret Jacks Hall), Room 126
Time: Mondays and Thursdays, 15:45-17:30

SYLLABUS

Th, July 5: Competence and Performance. Filler-Gap Dependencies. Island Phenomena. Theories of Islandhood in Generative Grammar. MORE.

Mo, July 9: The Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies: The State of the Art. Relevant factors known to affect processing difficulty. MORE.
Th, July 12: WH-Islands/Subjacency. MORE.

Mo, July 16: Subjacency/The Complex NP Constraint. MORE.
Th, July 19: More on Subjacency/The Complex NP Constraint. MORE.

Mo, July 23: Superiority. MORE.
Th, July 26: The Subject Condition and Parasitic Gaps. MORE.

Maintained by Ivan A. Sag.