Concepts of scope and isomorphism up to linearization, in relation to trees, and a brief look at Greenberg's (1963) Universal 20, and exceptions to it.
Properties from Hockett (1960, 1963) that might distinguish animal communication from human language.
Morpheme scope, and morphological segmentation.
Underspecification, blocking, and allomorphy in morphology. Evidence for structure in syntax: structural ambiguity and structure-sensitive operations.
X-bar schema, terminology for trees, and how to draw them.
Drawing trees, focusing on simple IPs, multiple clauses, complements vs. modifiers, and head directionality.
Presenting linguistic data in papers, and practice drawing movement trees.
Source & filter model of phonetics, and how to describe vowels and consonants in the IPA chart.
Contrast, natural classes and minimal pairs.
Phonological constraints to capture alternations.
Exercises about how to write constraints and rank them, and then monotonicity (semantics).
Two ways to treat determiners: as relations between sets vs. as quantifiers. I can't figure out a way to get the Venn diagrams to stay on the slides, so my apologies for the blank slides there!
A graduate level introductory syntax course. Handouts are mainly teaching supplementary papers or concepts. Tutorial topics differ from year to year.
Week 1: Poverty of the Stimulus and learning structure [handout]
Week 2: Case and A-movement [handout]
Week 3: Raising, Control, and tough-movement [handout]
Week 4: Binding domains [handout]
Guest Lecture: Is Control really Raising? [handout]
Week 5: Ditransitives and VP shells [handout]
Week 6: Agreement, valuation, and interpretability [handout]
Week 7: Islands [handout]
Week 8: Phasehood - an introduction [handout]
Week 9: Dynamic phasehood [handout]
Week 10: Ergativity [handout]
Week 11: Headedness and the Final-over-Final Condition [handout]
Week 12: Head movement [handout]
A graduate level introductory syntax course. Handouts are mainly teaching supplementary papers or concepts. Tutorial topics differ from year to year.
Week 1: Binding [handout]
Week 2: Anaphor agreement effect and Minimize Restrictor! [handout]
Week 3: Binding, reimagined [handout]
Week 4: Modal scope in Neg Inversion [handout]
Week 5: Object shift and Holmberg's Generalization [handout]
Week 6: Valuation and Interpretability [handout]
Week 7: Control [handout]
Week 8: A view on passivisation [handout]
Week 9: Dependent Case [handout] (My computer died, so apologies for the handwritten handout)
Week 10: Gerunds [handout]