Ling 620 -- Syllabus

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Class Dates
Topics and Readings
Student responses, assignments, and exams
8/23
Notes submitted by Carroll/Cheng
What is linguistics?
		Part I intro and Unit 1
		
8/23 Questions/comments
8/25
Notes submitted by Dunlap/Echezabal
What is syntax?
		Unit 2
		
8/25 Questions/comments
8/30
Notes submitted by Fischer/Galloway
Phrase structure rules
		Part II intro and Unit 3
		
8/30 Questions/comments
9/1
Notes submitted by Gokgoz/L.Hudson
Grammars
		Unit 4
		
9/1 Questions/comments
9/6
No classes.
Labor Day Holiday
9/8
Notes submitted by M.Hudson/Letexier
Working with grammars
		Unit 5
		
9/8 Questions/comments
9/13
Notes submitted by Medlin/Nelson
Rules and theories
		Part III intro and Unit 6
		
9/13 Questions/comments
9/15
Notes submitted by Shoji/Stout
Constituency tests
		Unit 7
		
9/15 Questions/comments
9/20
Notes submitted by Carroll/Cheng
Trees and tree relations
		Unit 8
		
9/20 Questions/comments
9/22
Notes submitted by Echezabal
Categories
		Unit 9
		
9/22 Questions/comments
9/27
Notes submitted by Fischer/Galloway
Revising and refining grammars
		Unit 10
		
9/27 Questions/comments
9/29

Midterm Exam
10/4
Notes submitted by Gokgoz/L.Hudson
Constructing arguments
		Part IV intro and Unit 11
		
10/4 Questions/comments
10/6
Notes submitted by M.Hudson/Letexier

Problem solution by Gokgoz-Kurt
Constructing arguments
		Unit 12
		
10/6 Questions/comments
10/11
Notes submitted by Medlin/Nelson
The lexicon
		Part V intro and Unit 13
		
10/11 Questions/comments
10/13
Notes submitted by Shoji/Stout
Features, heads, phrases
		Unit 14
		
10/13 Questions/comments
10/18
Notes submitted by Carroll/Cheng
Verb phrases
		Unit 15
		
10/18 Questions/comments
10/20
Notes submitted by Echezabal/Fischer
Complements and adjuncts
		Unit 16
		
10/20 Questions/comments
10/25
Notes submitted by Galloway/Gokgoz
Attaching complements
		Unit 17
		
10/25 Questions/comments
10/27
Notes submitted by L.Hudson/M.Hudson
Attaching adjuncts
		Unit 18
		
10/27 Questions/comments
11/1
Notes submitted by Letexier/Medlin
Complement sentences
		Part VI intro and Unit 19
		
11/1 Questions/comments
11/3
Notes submitted by Nelson/Shoji
Complement sentences
		Unit 20
		
11/3 Questions/comments
11/8
Notes submitted by Stout/Carroll
Invisible constituents
		Unit 21
		
11/08 Questions/comments
11/10
Notes submitted by Cheng/Echezabal
Noun phrase structure
		Unit 22
		
11/10 Questions/comments
11/15
Notes submitted by Fischer/Galloway
X-bar theory
		Unit 23
		
11/15 Questions/comments
11/17
Notes submitted by Gokgoz/L.Hudson
Interrogatives and movement
		Part VII intro and Unit 24
		
11/17 Questions/comments
11/22
Notes submitted by M.Hudson/Letexier
Generalized movement
		Unit 25
		
11/22 Questions/comments
11/24
No classes. Thanksgiving Break
11/29
Notes submitted by Medlin/Nelson
Constraints on movement
		Unit 26
		
11/29 Questions/comments
12/1
Notes submitted by Shoji/Stout
Constraints on movement
		Unit 27
		
12/1 Questions/comments
12/13

Final exam, 9:00am

Texts
Larson, Richard K.  2010.  
Grammar as Science.  
MIT Press.
Additional course readings
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