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.

Tuesday 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Hannah Haynie's home

Hannah Haynie
h j h at berkeley dot edu

fall 2005
spring 2006
fall 2006
spring 2007

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

23 august
We had our organizational meeting where we decided that the theme for our readings this semester would center around adjunction and argument structure.

4 september
We will be reading Alexiadou's brief summary "Adverbs across frameworks" and Cinque's article, "Issues in adverbial syntax", both of which are in Lingua (2004 vol. 114).

11 september
We will be reading "Asymmetry, syntactic objects and the Mirror Generalization" by Rejean Canac Marquis (in Anna Maria Di Sciullo, ed. 2003. Asymmetry in grammar, volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins).

18 september
We will be reading Fox and Nissenbaum's (1999) article "Extraposition and scope: A case for overt QR" (Proceedings of WCCFL 18).

25 september
We will read Idan Landau's recent (2007) paper "Constraints on partial VP-fronting" (Syntax 10:127-164), which can be found here.

2 october
We will read "On the need for a more refined approach to the argument-adjunct distinction: The case of dative experiencers in Hungarian" by György Rákosi (2006).

9 october
We will read "Copy raising and perception" by Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen (2007, Ms.)

16 october
We will be reading chapters 1-2 of Jane Grimshaw's book Argument structure. A photocopy is available in Maziar's box.

23 october
We will read chapter 3 on nominalizations of Jane Grimshaw's book. A photocopy of this week's reading, as well as last week's, in Maziar's box.

30 october
We will be reading Caroline Heycock's (1995) article "Asymmetries in Reconstruction" (Linguistic Inquiry 26:547-570), which can be found here.

6 november
Group is cancelled this week.

13 november
We will be reading Ellen Prince's (1996) article "Constructions and the Syntax-Discourse Interface". A .pdf version of this manuscript can be found here.

20 november
Group is not meeting this week because of Thanksgiving break.

27 november
We will be reading Cornish's (1992) article "So be it: The discourse-semantic roles of so and it" (J. Semantics 9:163-178).

4 december
For the last meeting of the semester we will be reading Pauline Jacobson's article "I can't seem to figure this out" in Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, eds. 2006. Drawing the boundaries of meaning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. A photocopy is available in Maziar's box.