Acquisition and Arguments

Fall 2013
Wednesday 2:30-5:15
Dickinson 210
Magda Oiry
313 South College
Tuesday/Thursday 3:00-4:00
Kyle Johnson
The Node
Tuesday 10:00-12:00
1 September 4 Introduction
2 September 11 The Dative Alternation
Reading:
3 September 18 The Dative Alternation
Reading:
4 September 25 The Dative Alternation
5 October 2 Acquisition and the Dative Alternation
6 October 9 Transitive Alternations
Reading:
7 October 16 Transitive Alternations 2
Reading:
Cenko and Budwig (2007)
8 October 23
Ethan Poole:
Pylkkanen (2002), Chapter 3

William Snyder:
"Evidence of parameter-setting in the acquisition of English particles and datives"
9 October 30
Jon Ander Mendia Aldama:

Nina Hyams
''The acquisition of syntactically encoded evidentiality: Evidence from English copy-raising'' (in collaboration with Jessica Rett and Lauren Winans)
10 November 6 Passives and Resultatives
Hsin-Lun Huang

Nick LaCara
* November 13 No Class
11 November 20 Passives and Raising
12 November 27 No Class
13 December 4 Student Presentations