Order and interpretation:
How to treat fractures at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
The 2nd Crete Summer School of Linguistics
July 16 - July 27, 2018
The course
A central property of natural language is that the translation procedure from surface syntax to semantic representations is complicated by form-meaning mismatches. The course examines a particular strategy for resolving such mismatches: multiple movement. Using the analysis reflexives, phrasal comparatives, same/different and quantifier scope as an empirical guide, we will investigate the impact syntactic principles exert on the formation of transparent logical forms, and evaluate which consequences different analytical choices have for modeling the relation between syntax and semantics.
This intermediate/advanced class presupposes working knowledge in syntax and semantics (lambda calculus).
Reading
Barker, C. 2007. Parasitic Scope. Linguistics and Philosophy 30. 3: 407-444. Sections 1 - 6
Lechner, W. 2015. The syntax-semantics interface. In: Tibor Kiss and Artemis Alexiadou (eds.), Syntax Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1199-1256. General background
Lechner, W. 2015. Clausal vs. phrasal comparatives. To appear in Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann, Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Semantics.Malden: Blackwell. Sections 1 - 3
Pancheva, R. 2009. More Students Attended FASL Than CONSOLE. Paper presented at Proceedings of FASL 17.
Pearson, H. 2015. Attitude verbs. In: Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann and Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Malden: Blackwell. Sections 1 - 5
Szabolcsi, A. 1987. Bound variables in syntax. (Are there any?). In: Jerome Groenendijk and Martin Stockhof (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, pp. 331-353. Section 1 - 3