| 1 | Introduction: "The Case for Syntax" | |
| 2 | Phrase Structure |  Fukui, Naoki. "Phrase Structure." In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Edited by M. Baltin, and C. Collins. Malden: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 374-406. ISBN: 0631205071. |
| 3 | Phrase Structure (cont.) | Kayne, Richard. The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262611074. (Excerpt: pp. 3-36.) |
| 4 | Binding Theory | Lasnik, Howard. "A Selective History of Modern Binding Theory." In Essays on Anaphora. Edited by H. Lasnik. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989, pp. 1-37. ISBN: 1556080913. |
| 5 | A-Movement | Baltin, Mark. "A-Movements." In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory . |
| 6 | A-Movement (cont.) | Lebeaux, David. Where Does the Binding Theory Apply? NEC Research Institute Technical Report, 1998. (Excerpt: pp. 1-37.) |
| 7 | Passives | Baker, Mark, Kyle Johnson, and Ian Roberts. "Passive Arguments Raised." Linguistic Inquiry 20 (1989): 219-25. |
| 8 | Unaccusativity | Levin, Beth, and Malka Rappaport. Unaccusativity at the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 0262620944. (Excerpt: pp. 34-81.) |
| 9 | Unaccusativity (cont.) | Baker, Mark. "Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure." In Elements of Grammar. Edited by L. Haegeman. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, pp. 73-137. ISBN: 0792342976. |
| 10 | Unaccusativity (cont.) | Friedmann, Naama et al. "The Vase Fell (The Vase). The Online Processing of Unaccusatives." To appear in Linguistic Inquiry (Journal published by MIT Press). |
| 11 | Relational Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar | Perlmutter, David, and Paul Postal. "The 1-Advancement Exclusiveness Law." In Studies in Relational Grammar. Vol. 2. Edited by D. Perlmutter, and S. Rosen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 81-125. ISBN: 0226660508. |
| 12 | Relational Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar (cont.) | Bresnan, Joan, and Annie Zaenen. "Deep Unaccusativity in LFG." In Grammatical Relations. A Cross-Theoretical Perspective. Edited by K. Dziwirek, P. Farrell, and E. Mejias-Bikandi. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1990, pp. 45-57. ISBN: 0937073636.
Bresnan, Joan. "Monotonicity and the Theory of Relation-Changes in LFG." Language Research 26, no. 4 (1990): 637-652. |
| 13 | Case and Licensing | Marantz, Alec. "Case and Licensing." In Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio's Generalization. Edited by E. Reuland. Amsterdam: Joan Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000, pp. 11-30. ISBN: 15561998X. |
| 14 | Case and Licensing (cont.) | Yoon, James. "Ambiguity of Government and the Chain Condition." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14 (1996): 105-162. |
| 15 | Null Subjects (PRO) | Jaeggli, Osvaldo, and Ken Safir. "The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory." In The Null Subject Parameter. Edited by O. Jaeggli, and K. Safir. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 1989, pp. 1-45. ISBN: 1556080875.
Iatridou, Sabine, and David Embick. "Apropos PRO." Language 73, no. 1 (1997): 58-78. |
| 16 | Control (PRO) | Lebeaux, David. "Anaphoric Binding and the Definition of PRO." NELS 14 (1984): 253-274.
Landau, Idan. Elements of Control: Structure and Meaning in Infinitival Constructions. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000. ISBN: 0792366204. (Excerpt: pp. 1-25.) |
| 17 | Control (PRO) (cont.) | Hornstein, Norbert. "Movement and Control." Linguistic Inquiry 30, no. 1 (1999): 69-96.
Landau, Idan. "Movement Out of Control." Linguistic Inquiry 34, no. 3 (2003): 471-498. |
| 18 | Head Movement | Roberts, Ian. "Head Movement." In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory . pp. 113-147. |
| 19 | Student Presentations | Baker, Mark. Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. ISBN: 0226035425. (Excerpt: Chapter 2, pp. 24-75.)
Rosen, Sara. "Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis." Language 65 (1989): 294-317. |
| 20 | Student Presentations (cont.) | DeGraff, Michel. "Verb Syntax in, and Beyond, Creolization." In The New Comparative Syntax . pp. 64-94.
Bobaljik, Jonathan. "Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax?" (M.S., 32 pages) 2002. To appear in Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. |
| 21 | Nonconfigurationality | Baker, Mark. "The Natures of Nonconfirurationality." In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory . pp. 407-438. |
| 22 | Double Objects | Larson, Richard. "On the Double Object Construction." Linguistic Inquiry 18 (1988): 335-392.
Aoun, Joseph, and Audrey Li. "Scope and Constituency." Linguistic Inquiry 20 (1989): 141-72. |
| 23 | Student Presentations | Jackendoff, Ray. "On Larson's Treatment of the Double Object Construction." Linguistic Inquiry 21 (1990): 427-56.
Larson, Richard. "Double Object Revisited: Reply to Jackendoff." Linguistic Inquiry 21 (1990): 589-632. |
| 24 | Psych Verbs | Belletti, Adriana, and Luigi Rizzi. "Psych-verbs and Theta-theory." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6 (1988): 291-352. |
| 25 | Psych Verbs (cont.) | Pesetsky, David. Zero Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN: 0262161451. (Excerpt: Chapter 2.) |
| 26 | Minimalism | Marantz, Alec. "Reader's Guide to the Minimalist Program." In Government and Binding and the Minimalist Program. Edited by G. Webelhuth. Malden: Blackwell, 1994, 349-382. ISBN: 0631180613.
Chomsky, Noam. "A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory." In The View from Building 20. Edited by K. Hale, and S. J. Keyser. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993, pp. 1-52. ISBN: 0262581248. (Reprinted in Chomsky. Chapter 3 in The Minimalist Program. Cambridge: Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995.) |
| 27 | Minimalism (cont.) | Chomsky, Noam. The Minimalist Program . (Excerpt from Chapter 4.) |
| 28 | Minimalism (cont.) | Chomsky, Noam. "Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework." In Step by Step. Edited by R. Martin, D. Michaels, and J. Uriagereka. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, pp. 89-155. ISBN: 026213361X. (Excerpts)
———. "Derivation by Phase" (Excerpts). In Ken Hale: A Life in Language. pp.1-52.
Frampton, John et al. "Remarks on 'Derivation by Phase': Feature Valuation, Agreement, and Intervention." (M.S., 8 pages) 2000. |