| Week | Topics and Readings | |
| Part I. Foundations. | ||
| 1 | 1/22, 1/24 |
Merge and Agree in the theory of grammar. Agree and the uF model. Reading: Bhatt 2005 (for Tues) Further reading: Chomsky 2001, Polinsky and Potsdam 2001 |
| 2 | 1/29, 1/31 |
Relativized probes. Cyclic Agree. Reading: Bejar 2003 (for Tues) Further reading: Harley and Ritter 2002, Rezac 2003 |
| 3 | 2/5, 2/7 |
Failed Agree; Agree and clitic doubling.
Reading: Preminger 2014 (chapters 1-5 for Tuesday; 6-11 for Thursday) Further reading: Nevins 2011, Kramer 2014 |
| 4 | 2/12 |
Beyond uF: interaction and satisfaction. Reading: Deal 2015 (for Tues) Further reading: Bejar and Rezac 2009, Haegeman and van Koppen 2012 No class Thursday 2/14 (ARD in Maryland) |
| Part II. Case studies. | ||
| 5 | 2/19, 2/21 |
The person-case constraint: contrasting analyses. IO preference or DO preference?
Reading: Bejar and Rezac 2003 (for Tues) Further reading: Rezac 2011 |
| 6 | 2/26, 2/28 |
A richer typology of PCC effects. PCC and licensing.
Reading: Anagnostopoulou 2017 (for Tues); Coon and Keine 2018 (for Thurs) Further reading: Nevins 2007, 2011 |
| 7 | 3/5, 3/7 |
More on object preference: Inverse PCC in Slovenian and Matsigenka/Caquinte.
Reading: Stegovec To appear (for Tues) Further reading: O'Hagan 2018 |
| 8 | 3/12, 3/14 |
Antiagreement: a case study in interaction/satisfaction and the syntax-morphology interface
Reading: Baier 2018 , chapters 1 and 2 (for Tues) Further reading: van Urk 2015 |
| Part III. Insatiable probing. | ||
| 9 | 3/19, 3/21 |
A first look at the typology of wh-movement. Wh-in-situ. Diagnosing (covert) wh-movement.
Reading: Kotek 2017 (for Tues) Further reading: Pesetsky 2000, Beck 2006 |
| 10 | 4/2, 4/4 |
Multiple wh-movement: deriving the typology
Reading: Boskovic 2002 (for Tues) Further reading: Rudin 1988, Boskovic 1999 |
| 11 | 4/9, 4/11 |
Person portmanteaux: one probe or many?
Reading: Georgi 2013 (for Tues) Further reading: Radkevich 2010, Heck and Richards 2010 |
| 12 | 4/16 |
Switch reference
Reading: Clem 2019 (for Tues) Further reading: Watanabe 2000, Diercks 2013, Clem 2018 No class 4/18 (ARD in Princeton). |
| Part IV. Next steps. | ||
| 13 | 4/23, 4/25 |
Tuesday: Pure satisfaction? Thursday: Indirect agreement, feature movement, the activity condition
Reading: Deal 2017 (for Thursday) Further reading: Rizzi 1990, Woolford 1999, Rackowski and Richards 2005, Halpert 2016 |
| 14 | 4/30, 5/2 | Discussion of students' final papers |