19 january
Our first meeting of the semester will be held from
7:00 to 8:30 in the evening at Rebecca Cover's house.
We will be recovering from winter break and discussing
what we are going to read for the upcoming semester.
Everybody should try to bring wine and/or desert,
as well as an article or topic to recommend. Ask
Becca for directions.
25 january
We will discuss Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva's
(2004) article entitled "Late merger of degree clauses"
(Linguistic Inquiry 35:1-45), available
here.
1 february
We will continue our discussion of Bhatt and Pancheva
(2004).
8 february
In preperation for his talk at
BLS32, we will discuss Norvin Richard's manuscript
article, "A
distinctness condition on linearization".
15 february
Dan Hardt will be visiting and we will be discussing
Fox and Pesetsky's (2005) paper, "Cyclic
linearization of syntactic structure" (Theoretical
Linguistics 31:1–45).
22 february
We will discuss Chomsky's (1977) paper "On wh-movement"
(In P. Culicover, T. Wasow, and A. Akmajian, eds.
Formal Syntax. New York: Academic Press.)
A copy can be found in Line's box.
1 march
Line Mikkelsen will give a dry run of her upcoming
talk at Santa Cruz.
8 march
We will discuss Joseph Sabbagh's (2005) manuscript
paper "Ordering and linearizing
rightward movement".
15 march
We will finish our discussion of the Sabbagh (2005).
22 march
We will discuss Jonathan Bobalijk's (2002) paper,
"A-chains at the PF interface: Copies and 'covert' movement" (Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 20:197-267).
29 march
We won't be meeting since it's Spring Break.
5 april
We will finish our discussion of the Bobalijk (2002) paper. We will be meeting
as usual at Becca's house.
12 april
We will discuss Citko's (2005) paper, "On the nature of merge:
External merge, internal merge, and parallel merge" (Linguistic Inquiry 36:475-496). We will also
be meeting exceptionally at Hannah Haynie's house.
19 april
We will discuss the manuscript of Peter Svenonius' paper "1...3-2".
26 april
We will discuss Fitzpatrick's (2002) paper "On Minimalist Approaches to the Locality of
Movement" (Linguistic Inquiry 33:443-463).
3 may
For our last meeting of the semester, we are going to read one of Geoff Pullum's Topic...Comment
columns: Formal linguistics meets the Boojum, Chomsky's
reply, and finally Chapter Two
of Paul Postal's Skeptical Linguistic Essays.
Other things we might have read include:
Michael Wescoat. 2001. On lexical sharing.
Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.
Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen. 2005.
Copy raising and its consequences for perceptual
reports. In Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris
Manning, Jane Simpson, and Annie Zaenen, eds.
Architectures, rules, and preferences: A Festschrift
for Joan Bresnan. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Chapter on unbounded dependencies from Carl Pollard
and Ivan A. Sag. 1994. Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
and Stanford, CA: CSLI.
Ray Jackendoff and Peter Culicover. 2004.
Simpler Syntax Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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