Teaching
Graduate Syntax I (LING 200B, Fall 2021)
These handouts are always a work-in-progress, so comments are always welcome!
- Foundations of syntax
- The Minimalist toolkit
- Probing structure
- Miscellaneous review
- Questions in English
- More on phrase structure
- Final-over-Final Condition
- Islands and other constraints on movement
- Cyclicity
- More types of A'-movement
- Georgi 2017
- Raising vs. control
- VP-internal subjects
- ECM and object control
- Deal 2013: Possessor raising
- The A/A'-distinction
- Structure in VP
- Structure in TP and CP
- The End
Seminar: The Williams Cycle (Winter 2022)
- Embedding as delayed substitution
- Williams 2003: Ch. 1-2
- Williams 2003: Ch. 3 & 5
- Williams 2003: Ch. 4
- Williams 2013: GSGM
- Other approaches to the Williams Cycle
- Hyperraising
- Long-distance agreement
- On hyper-configurations
Seminar: Reconstruction effects (Spring 2020)
- Cataloguing reconstruction effects
- SynR and SemR
- Romero/Fox: Reconstruction and connectivity
- Keine & Poole 2018: Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic
- Wrapping up SynR and SemR
- Postal 1994: Contrasting extraction types
- Antipronominality as a reconstruction effect
- Trace Conversion and Late Merger
- Crossover
- Adger et al. 2017 and Bruening & Al Khalaf 2019