30 august
Our first meeting of the semester will take place at Hannah Haynie's house at 5:30 pm.
For those who don't know how to get there, directions will be provided. Bring a snack and
ideas for what to read.
6 september
We will read Chapters 1-2 of Jackendoff and Culicover's (2004) book
Simpler Syntax (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Line will
make photocopies available in her box.
13 september
We will read Chapters 4-5 of Simpler Syntax.
20 september
We will read Chapter 5 of Simpler Syntax (for real this time).
27 september
We will read Chapter 7 of Simpler Syntax, with Chapter 6 as optional background reading.
4 october
We will finish discussing Chapter 7 (section 7.5 to the end) and start discussing Chapter 8 of Simpler Syntax.
11 october
We are going to read Chapter 2 of Mark de Vrie's (2002) dissertation "The syntax of relativization", available here. We should all bring an example of a relative clause construction from our favorite language to share.
19 october
We finished discussing the de Vrie and our examples.
26 october
We will read Rajesh Bhatt's (2003) paper "Locality in Correlatives" (NLLT) available here.
1 november
We will read Chapter 3 of Harold Torrence's 2005 UCLA dissertation "On the distribution of complementizers in Wolof", which is available on his website.
8 november
We will read Chapters 1 and 2 of Ivano Caponigro's 2003 UCLA dissertation "Free not to ask:
On the semantics of free relatives and wh-words cross-linguistically," which has been made available via email.
15 november
We will read Jorge Hankamer and Laura Knecht's (1976) paper " The role of subject/non-subject distinction in determining the choice of relative clause participle in Turkish," which is available in Line's box.
22 november
Syntax Group is cancelled because of Thanksgiving.
29 november
Syntax Group is cancelled again so that we can recover from Thanksgiving.
6 december
For the last meeting of the semester, we will discuss Nordlinger's (2006) article "Spearing the emu drinking: Subordination and the adjoined relative clause in Wambaya" (Australian Journal of Linguistics 26:5-29).
We might have read the following:
Andrew Garrett. 1994. Relative clause syntax in Lycian and Hittite. Die Sprache 36: 29-69.
Kenneth Hale. 1976. The adjoined relative clause in Australia. In R.M.W. Dixon, ed. Grammatical categories in Australian languages. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Press, 78-105.
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