Linguistics 750: Proseminar in Syntax
Fall 2009
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Kyle Johnson
124 South College
Office Hours: Wednesday, 9:00-11:00
545.6840
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| 1 | September 10 |
Movement: The Design Criteria
handout A Guide to the Readings |
| 2 | September 17 | Reconstruction: Functional Questions
handout From the Reconstruction reading list: Engdahl (1980) and the Heim handout |
| 3 | September 24 | Part 1: ''The composition of INFL: An Exploration of Tense and Tenselessness''
talk by Martina Wiltschko Part 2: Trace Conversion From the Reconstruction reading list: Fox (2002) and Takahashi's review |
| 4 | October 1 | Deconstructing Trace Conversion
Background reading:
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| 5 | October 8 | Part 1: Rethinking QR
Part 2: "Reflections on Verb Second''
Günther Grewendorf
Partee Room 4 PM |
| 6 | October 15 | Derivations |
| 7 | October 22 | How Many Questions
From the Reconstruction reading list:
Cresti (1995) |
| 8 | October 29 | Pied Piping
From the Spell Out reading list:
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| 9 | November 5 | The End of Copies |
| 10 | November 12 | Part 1:
''On the T(r)ail of a Syntactic Change: Verb Movement in Faroese''
talk by Caroline Heycock
Part 2: Deconstructing QR handout |
| 11 | November 19 | Kinds of DP Movement
From the Reconstruction reading list:
Sauerland and Elbourne (2002) |
| 12 | November 26 | Thanksgiving |
| 13 | December 3 | |
| 14 | December 10 | The Truth |