Introduction to Syntax Session 1

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Page 1 and 2: Introduction to Syntax Session 1 In
Page 3 and 4: The Plan • The topics that are di
Page 5 and 6: Homework • Homework exercises are
Page 7 and 8: Presentations • The final version
Page 9 and 10: What is Syntax? • The scientific
Page 11 and 12: How do we acquire languages? • We
Page 13 and 14: Subconscious knowledge • We have
Page 15 and 16: Language as an instinct • Noam Ch
Page 17 and 18: Presentation Topic 1 Nature versus
Page 19 and 20: Parts of Speech • We will go thro
Page 21 and 22: Lexical Ambiguity • Words can hav
Page 23: umfahren has two meanings: Lexical
Page 27 and 28: Syntactic Structure • Ambiguities
Page 29 and 30: Parsing Preferences • Unexpectedl
Page 31 and 32: Garden Path Sentences Peter sagt, d
Page 33 and 34: Presentation Topic 2 Overview Artic
Page 35 and 36: Picture NPs • NPs of the “Xself
Page 37 and 38: Presentation Topic 3 Picture-NPs--
Page 39 and 40: • E.g. X-bar theory says that com
Page 41 and 42: Expletives • There are verbs that
Page 43 and 44: Presentation Topic 4 Paper for pres
Page 45 and 46: Word Order • Languages exhibit di
Page 47 and 48: Presentation Topic 5 Paper for pres
Page 49 and 50: Presentation Topic 6 Word Order in
Page 51 and 52: Embedded Clauses in German • As p
Page 53 and 54: Presentation Topic 7 Embedded Claus
Page 55 and 56: DP- and WH-Movement • Not only ve
Page 57 and 58: WH-Movement in Bavarian • But the
Page 59 and 60: Empirical Evidence for Traces • I
Page 61 and 62: Presentation Topic 9 Pullum’s Pap
Page 63 and 64: Crosslinguistic Evidence for Little
Page 65 and 66: Presentation Topic 10 Little vP and
Page 67 and 68: Raising and Control • Raising and
Page 69 and 70: Dena is reluctant to leave. ⇒ tha
Page 71 and 72: Syntactic Frameworks • Finally, w
Page 73 and 74: Session Planning 01 October 16 Intr
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Session Planning 08 December 4 Head
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Session Planning 14 January 15 Expa
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