Teaching

Teaching experience

Morphology

• From "Introduction to Morphology" (co-taught with Rafael Abramovitz at MIT)

  • • Introduction into Distributed Morphology, slides1, slides2, slides3, slides4, slides5

A'-syntax

• From "Hauptseminar Syntax: Extraction Domains" (taught at Göttingen University)

  • • Introduction to extraction domains: handout1, handout2

    • Phases: handout1, slides2, handout3, handout4

    • Strong islands: handout1, handout2, handout3

• From "Topics in Syntax" (co-taught with Danny Fox at MIT)

  • • Locality: Introduction, handout

    • Locality: Subject Condition, handout

    • Locality: Adjunct Condition, handout

    • Locality: Coordinate Structure Constraint, handout

Focus semantics

• From "Advanced Linguistics: Focus" (taught at Göttingen University)

  • • On information structure: handout

    • The basics of alternative semantics: Three theories of focus, Alternative semantics

    • Association with focus and movement: The Tanglewood debates

Argument structure

• From "Hauptseminar Syntax: Argument structure" (taught at Göttingen University)

  • • • The syntax of arguments: VP-internal subject hypothesis, Double Object Constructions, Unaccusativity

      • Syntax-semantics interface: Linking, UTAH

      • Lexicalism vs. neo-Davidsonianism: handout1, handout2, handout3, handout4

      • Predicate decomposition: handout1, handout2

      • Aktionsart and indirect access problem: handout

• From "Lexical database for argument structure" (a mini-course taught at the fieldwork lab at Harvard)

  • • • slides1, slides2

Fieldwork

• From "Advanced Linguistics: Linguistics in the field" (taught at Göttingen University)

  • • • Observation and experiment in linguistics: handout

      • Elicitation design: handout

Courses taught