Course Description:
Recent developments in syntactic theory.
Lectures
Syllabus
Preliminary Reading List
An Annotated Bibliography of Salish Linguistics
January 31 - click to view/hide
February 7 - click to view/hide
- Legendre, Géraldine, William Raymond, and Paul Smolensky. 1993.
An Optimality-Theoretic Typology of Case and Grammatical Voice Systems.
Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 19: 464-478.
(legendre-ot-voice-BLS.pdf)
- Legendre, Géraldine. 2001. An Introduction to Optimality Theory
in Syntax. In Géraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner
(eds.). Optimality Theory in Syntax. MIT Press.
(Legendre_otintro.pdf)
- Bresnan, Joan, Shipra Dingare, and Christopher D. Manning. 2001. Miriam
Butt and Tracy Holloway King(eds.). Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints:
Voice and Person in English and Lummi. Proceedings of the LFG01 Conference.
(http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/6/lfg01.html)
(bresnan-voice-personlummi.pdf)
February 21 - click to view/hide
- Aissen, Judith. 1999. Markedness and subject choice in optimality theory. Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory 17:673-711.
(AissSubjChoiceinOT.pdf)
- Aissen, Judith. 1999. Agent Focus and Inverse in Tsotsil. Language 75.3. 451-85.
(AisseniInverseTzotsil.pdf)
- Bresnan, Joan and Judith Aissen. 2002. Optimality and Functionality: Objections and Refutations. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 20.1, 81-95.
(BresAissOptandFunct.pdf)
- Bresnan, Joan. 1999. Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition. In Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds.)
Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory.
(BRESNAN-morph-syn-competition.pdf)
February 28 - click to view/hide
- Jason Brown, Karsten Koch, and Martina Wiltschko. 2003. The Person Hierarchy: Primitive or Epiphenomenal?
Evidence from Halkomelem Salish. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society 34.
(Brown-koch-wiltschko.PDF)
- Aissen, Judith. 2003. Yi and Bi: Proximate and Obviative in Navajo. In (A. Carnie, E Jelinek, and M. Willie, eds.)
Papers in Honor of Ken Hale, MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages #.
(Aissen-navajo.pdf)
- Problems from Legendre, Raymond, and Smolensky (LR&S). Homework C
- Saxon, Leslie. 2001. On two OSV constructions in Navajo: beyond Subject-Object Inversion. In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 6. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.
(Navajo-Saxon-UBCWPL.pdf)
March 7 - click to view/hide
- Dowty, David. 1991. Thematic proto-roles and argument selection. Language, 67, 547-619
(dowty.pdf)
- Bresnan, Joan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2003ms. On the Gradience of the Dative Alternation.
(bresnan-new-dative.pdf)
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