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.

Thursday 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Rebecca Cover's home.

Hannah Haynie
h j h at berkeley dot edu

fall 2005
spring 2006
fall 2006

27-29 april
WCCFL 26
Every week:
Syntax & Semantics Circle

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics

25 january
Meeting at Becca's home to discuss readings and topics for the semester.

1 February
We will be reading Rose-Marie Déchaine and Martina Wiltschko's 2002 article, "Decomposing Pronouns" from Linguistic Inquiry 33.

8 february
We will be reading Heidi Harley and Elizabeth Ritter's 2002 article, "Person and Number in Pronouns: A Feature-Geometric Analysis" from Language 78.

15 february
No meeting so we can recover from BLS 33.

22 february
We will be reading Cardinaletti, Anna, and Starke, Michal. 1999. "The typology of structural deficiency: A case study of the three classes of pronouns." In Riemsdijk, Henk van (ed.), Clitics in the languages of Europe (pp. 145-233). New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

1 march
Continued discussion of Cardinaletti and Starke 1999.

8 march
No Syntax Group.

15 march
We will be reading Lynn Nichols' 1999 article, "Movement to Specifiers".

22 march
We will be reading Sandra Chung's 2003 article, "The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro" from Linguistic Inquiry.

29 march
Spring Break - no meeting.

5 april
We will be reading Robin Cooper's 1999 article, "The interpretation of pronouns" from Syntax and Semantics. A copy of the article is available in Hannah's mailbox in 1203 Dwinelle.

12 april
TBA.

19 april
TBA.

26 april
TBA.

3 may
TBA.

Possible Readings:

Garrett, Andrew. 1996. "Wackernagel's Law and Unaccusativity in Hittite." In Halpern & Zwicky (eds.) Approaching second. pp. 85-133. Stanford: CSLI.

Haspelmath, Martin. 2005. "Indefinite Pronouns." In: Haspelmath, Martin, Dryer, Matthew S., Gil, David, and Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures. pp. 190-193. Oxford University Press.

Haspelmath, Martin. 1997. Indefinite Pronouns. Oxford University Press.

Partee, Barbara. 1972. "Opacity, coreference and pronouns." In: Davidson, Donald, and Harman, Gilbert (eds.) Semantics of Natural Language. pp. 415-441. Reidel Publishing.