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The
Syntax Group is an informal weekly gathering of
graduate students and faculty to read and discuss
works of contemporary syntactic theory. All are
welcome to attend.
Thursdays,
2:00-3:30
1308
Dwinelle Hall
Ange Strom-Weber
angesw at berkeley.edu
Maziar Toosarvandani
mtoosarvandani at berkeley.edu
October
8, 2005:
Workshop on Identity in Ellipsis
Every
week:
Syntax & Semantics Circle
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
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This semester's topic
is Distributed Morphology (DM). We will be reading
some seminal works of the theory, as well as a number
of works applying it to questions at the syntax-morphology
and morphology-phonology interfaces.
8 september
Chapters 1-2 of Thomas
McFadden's (2004) Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The
Position of Morphology Case in the Derivation: A
study on the syntax-morphology interface" (U. Pennsylvania).
It is available online at:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~tmcfadde/diss.html
15 september
Chapters 3-4 of the
McFadden dissertation.
22 september
Chapters 5-6.2.2 of
the McFadden dissertation.
29 september
Chapters 6.2.3-7 of
the McFadden dissertation.
6 october
Chapter 8 of the McFadden
dissertation.
13 october
David Embick and Rolf
Noyer. 2001. Movement operations after syntax.
LI 32, 555-595.
20 october
Finish Embick and
Noyer (2001) and look back at Chapter 7 of the
McFadden dissertation.
27 october
Morris Halle. 1990.
An approach to morphology. NELS 20, 150-184.
Line will have a copy in her box.
3 november
Heidi Harley
and Rolf Noyer. 1999. Distributed morphology.
Glot International 4(4), 3-9.
10 november
Alec Marantz. 1997.
No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis
in the privacy of your own Lexicon. In A. Dimitriadis,
et al., eds. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
4:2, 201-225. It is available
here.
17 november
David Embick. 2004. On the structure of
resultative participles in English.
Linguistic Inquiry 35:355-392. It is
available
here through Project Muse.
24 november
No meeting.
Thanksgiving Day.
1 december
Daniel Siddiqi. 2005. Distributed Morphology
without secondary exponence: A local account of
licensing thematic licensing of vocabulary items
and strong verb alternations. Ms., University of
Arizona. It is available
here.
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