24.952
Advanced Syntax
Problems in constructing an explanatory theory of grammatical representation. Topics drawn from current work on anaphora, casemarking, control, argument structure, Wh- and related constructions. Study of language-particular parameters in the formulation of linguistic universals.
Spring 2007
This course is a continuation of 24.951. This semester the course topics of interest include movement, phrase structure, and the architecture of the grammar.
Readings
- Fox, Danny. “On Logical Form.” In Minimalist Syntax . Edited by Randall Hendrick. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 82-123. ISBN: 9780631219415.
- Johnson, Kyle, and Satoshi Tomioka. “Lowering and Mid-size Clauses.” Proceedings of the Tübingen Workshop on Reconstruction, Tübingen, Germany, 1997.
- Reinhart, Tanya. “ Wh -in-situ in the Framework of the Minimalist Program.” Natural Language Semantics 6, no. 1 (1998): 29-56.
- Lechner, Winfried. “Two Kinds of Reconstruction.” Studia Linguistica 52, no. 3 (1998): 276-310.
- Sportiche, Dominique. “Reconstruction, Binding and Scope.” Unpublished manuscript, University of California Los Angeles, 2003.
- Aoun, Joseph, and Abbas Benmamoun. “Minimality, Reconstruction, and PF Movement.” Linguistic Inquiry 29, no. 4 (1998): 569-597.
- 5 · Wh -movement: Islands, barriers and successive-cyclicity · Chomsky, Noam. “On Wh -Movement.” In Formal Syntax . Edited by Peter W. Culicover, Thomas Wasow, and Adrian Akmajian. New York: Academic Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780121992408.
- McCloskey, James. “Resumption, Successive Cyclicicty, and the Locality of Operations.” In Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program . Edited by Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seeley. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 9780631227335.
- Müller, Gereon. “A Constraint on Remnant Movement.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14 (1996): 355-407.
- Kitahara, Hisatsugu. “Restricting Ambiguous Rule-Application: A Unified Analysis of Movement.” In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #24 . Edited by Masatoshi Koizumi and Hiroyuki Ura. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994.
- Starke, Michal. “Move Dissolves into Merge: a Theory of Locality.” Doctoral dissertation, Université de Genève, 2001.
- Fox, Danny, and David Pesetsky. “Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure.” Theoretical Linguistics 31, nos. 1-2 (2005): 1-46.
- Holmberg, Anders. “Remarks on Holmberg’s Generalization.” Studia Linguistica 53 (1999): 1-39.
- Anagnostopoulou, Elena. The Syntax of Ditransitives: Evidence from Clitics . Berlin, Germany: M. de Gruyter, 2002. ISBN: 9783110170283.
- 18-19 · Wh -movement: Pied-piping
- Heck, Fabian. “A Theory of Pied-Piping.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Tuebingen, 2004.
- Cable, Seth. “Q-Particles and the Nature of Wh -Fronting.” Manuscript, 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- 21-22 · Miyagawa, Shigeru. “A-movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality.” In Word Order and Scrambling . Edited by Simin Karimi. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 177-200.
- Johnson, Kyle. “Gapping Isn’t (VP) Ellipsis.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006.
- Lin, Vivian. “Determiner Sharing.” In Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Edited by R. Billerey and B. D. Lillehaugen. 2000.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 24.951 G (Spring) 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2007
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.