Syntax 3
This
course provides an introduction to the current stage of the theory of generative
syntax, the so-called Minimalist Program. Reading material includes (parts of)
chapters 3 and 4 of N. Chomsky, The Minimalist Program (MIT Press, Cambridge,
1995). The following subjects are discussed: the development from Government and
Binding Theory to Minimalism; the operations Merge and Move; phrase structure
theory; the notion of Minimal Domain; the relation between morphology and
syntax; movement and feature checking; economy conditions; parametrization.
Schedule
Week 1, 4/9: Introduction
Week
2, 11/9: Word Order
Reading: Zwart, 1997, The Germanic SOV Languages and the Universal Base Hypothesis, in: L. Haegeman, ed., The New Comparative Syntax, Longman, pp 246-267.
Week 3, 18/9: Phrase Structure
Reading:
Chomsky, 1995, The Minimalist Program, pp 241-249, MIT Press.
Week 4, 25/9: Mirror Symmetry and Parallel Structure
Reading: Koster, 2001, The Mirror Symmetry of Syntax (Links en Rechts van het Werkwoord). Mss. (in MS Word: Mirror Symmetry, Links en Rechts)
Week
5, 2/10: Overt vs. Covert Movement
Reading:
Kayne, 1998, Overt vs. Covert Movement, pp 128-145 + 182-183, Syntax
1, 128-191.
Week
6, 9/10: Feature Checking 1, Head Movement
Reading:
Pollock, 1989, Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of the
IP. Linguistics Inquiry 20, 365-424.
Chomsky, 1995, The Minimalist Program, pp 194-199, MIT Press.
Week 7, 16/10: geen college
Week
8, 23/10: Feature Checking 2, XP-Movement
Reading:
Koster, 1999, The Word Orders of English and Dutch: Collective vs. Individual
Checking, ms., University of Groningen.
Week
9, 30/10: Expletives in Germanic
Reading:
Koster & Zwart), 2001, Transitive
Expletive Constructions and the Object Shift Parameter.
Week 10, 6/11: Imperatives
Reading:
Ziegler, 2001, Dutch Imperatives and Parallel Construal. MA Thesis, University of Groningen.
Week
11, 13/11: Extra