Syntactic Theory II

4.0 credits

This graduate course expands upon and deepens the analyses of cross-linguistic syntactic phenomena introduced in LING 460 with the goal of learning to use and develop syntactic theory as a framework for exploring, understanding and explaining cross-linguistic as well as language-specific syntactic patterns. Participants will engage in class discussion of primary syntactic literature and develop a research project to be presented to the class and submitted at the end of the term. Topics include A vs. A-bar phenomena, constraints on A-bar movement, successive cyclicity, wh-in-situ, relative clauses, tough constructions, linearization, ATB movement and multi-dominance, control, ellipsis and binding.