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Feb. 11 |
What are phases? : [Handout #1] |
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Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by Phase. Ken Hale: a life in language, edited by Michael Kenstowicz. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Legate, Julie. 2001. Some interface properties of the phase. ms., MIT. Svenonius, Peter. 2000. Impersonal Passives: a phase-based analysis. ms., University of Tromsø. Svenonius, Peter. 2001. On Object Shift, Scrambling, and the PIC. A Few from Building E39: Papers in syntax, semantics, and their interface (MITWPL 39), edited by Elena Guerzoni and Ora Matushansky. MITWPL, Cambridge, MA. Simpson, Andrew, and Xiu-zhi Zoe Wu. 2001. Understanding cyclic spell-out. To appear in Proceedings of NELS 32. Bresnan, Joan. 1972. On sentence stress and syntactic transformations. Contributions to Generative Phonology, edited by Michael Brame. University of Texas Press, Austin. If you have trouble with the gzipped Bresnan file above, here's the (19 MB) ungzipped file. |
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Feb. 19 |
Phases and checking : [Handout #2] |
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Frampton, John, Sam Gutmann, Julie Legate, and Charles Yang. 2000. Remarks on "Derivation by Phase": feature valuation, agreement, and intervention. ms., Northeastern, MIT, and Yale. Hiraiwa, Ken. 2001. EPP: Object Shift and Stylistic Fronting in Scandinavian. WCCFL 20 Proceedings, edited by K. Megerdoomian and L. A. Bar-el. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA. Pesetsky, David, and Esther Torrego. 2000. T-to-C movement: causes and consequences. Ken Hale: a life in language, edited by Michael Kenstowicz. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. |
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Feb. 25 |
Phases and linearization: Distinctness : [Handout #3] |
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Hiraiwa, Ken. 2001. "Multiple Agree and the defective intervention constraint in Japanese." MITWPL 40: Proceedings of HUMIT 2000. MITWPL, Cambridge, MA. Richards, Norvin. 2001. "A Distinctness condition on linearization." ms., MIT. |
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March 4 |
What are phases? part 2: applicatives :[Handout #4] |
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Bruening, Benjamin. 2001. QR Obeys Superiority: ACD and Frozen Scope. Linguistic Inquiry 32(2):233-273. McGinnis, Martha. 2001. Object asymmetries in a phase theory of syntax. ms., University of Calgary. Pylkkänen, Liina. 2000. What Applicative Heads Apply To. In Minnick, M., A. Williams and E. Kaiser (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7.1. Seidl, Amanda. 2000. Minimal indirect reference: a theory of the syntax-phonology interface. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Or use the ungzipped version (27.1 MB).Soh, Hooi Ling. 1998. Object Scrambling in Chinese. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. Or use the ungzipped version (43.3 MB). |
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March 11 |
Successive-cyclic movement :[Handout #5] |
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Adger, David, and Gillian Ramchand. 2001. Phases and interpretability. Proceedings of WCCFL 20, edited by K. Megerdoomian and Leona Bar-el. Cascadilla Press, Somerville. Bruening, Benjamin. 2001. Syntax at the Edge: Cross-Clausal Phenomena and the Syntax of Passamaquoddy. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. [Chapter 4] Or use the ungzipped version (30 MB).Heck, Fabian, & Gereon Müller. 2001. Successive cyclicity, long-distance superiority, and local optimization. Proceedings of WCCFL 19, edited by Roger Billerey and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. Cascadilla Press, Somerville. McCloskey, James. To appear. Resumption, successive cyclicity, and the locality of operations. To appear in Derivation and explanation in the Minimalist Program, edited by Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seely. Blackwell. Nissenbaum, Jon. 2000. Investigations of Covert Phrase Movement. Doctoral dissertation, MIT. [pp. 64-111] Or use the ungzipped version (25 MB).Sauerland, Uli. 2001. Intermediate adjunction with A-movement. ms., Universität Tübingen. optional reading: take a look at this if you enjoy Heck and Müller, above |
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March 18 |
Successive-cyclic movement, continued : [Handout #6] |
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March 25 |
Spring Break |
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April 1 |
Guest Lecture: David Pesetsky |
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April 8 |
islands |
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Ceplova, Marketa. 2001. Minimalist islands--restricting P-features. ms., MIT. Rackowski, Andrea. To appear. Subjects and specificity: the case of Tagalog. Proceedings of NELS 32. Richards, Norvin. To appear. Lowering and Cyclicity: Attraction by X from Spec XP. Proceedings of NELS 32. |
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April 15 |
Patriots’ Day vacation |
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April 22 |
islands : [Handout #7] |
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Uriagereka, Juan. 1999. Multiple spell-out. In Working Minimalism, Samuel Epstein and Norbert Hornstein, eds., 251-282. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Or use the ungzipped version (17 MB).Johnson, Kyle. 2002. Towards an etiology of certain islands. Talk handout, Harvard University. Or use the ungzipped version (17 MB).Ceplova, Marketa. 2001. Minimalist islands--restricting P-features. ms., MIT. Rackowski, Andrea. To appear. Subjects and specificity: the case of Tagalog. Proceedings of NELS 32. Richards, Norvin. To appear. Lowering and Cyclicity: Attraction by X from Spec XP. Proceedings of NELS 32. |
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April 29 |
Guest Lecture: Danny Fox and David Pesetsky |
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Holmberg, Anders. 1999. Remarks on Holmberg's Generalization. Studia Linguistica 53, 1-39. Or use the ungzipped version (20.1 MB). |
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May 6 |
Phases, linearization, and the EPP : [Handout #8] |
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No readings! Today you know everything. |
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May 20 |
Student presentations |