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I have posted the following forthcoming textbook online for people to use as a background reference. Koopman, Hilda, Dominique Sportiche, and Ed Stabler (to appear). An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory. Other Useful Resources Baltin, Mark and Chris Collins. 2001. The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Everaert, Martin and Henk van Riemsdijk. 2006. The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Boeckx, Cedric. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Adger, David. 2003. Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [Chapters 1-5 posted on Blackboard] Helpful Links for Syntacticians Blackwell Linguistic Compass http://linguistics-compass.com/syntax-morphology/ Lingbuzz (hot new papers on syntax) http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (articles relevant to semantics) http://plato.stanford.edu/ 50 Years of Linguistics at MIT (see the videos on syntax and semantics) http://ling50.mit.edu/ MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://mitwpl.mit.edu/ EALING archives (videos and handouts, EALING stands for Ecole d'Automne de Linguistique) http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr/ealing2012/site/PreviousEalings The syntax of natural language: An online introduction using the Trees program Beatrice Santorini , Anthony Kroch http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/index.html World Atlas of Language Structures (online database) (it can be addictive to start playing with this) http://wals.info/ Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages (online database) http://sswl.railsplayground.net/ The AFRANAPH Project (online database) http://www.africananaphora.rutgers.edu/ Approaching Islands (syllabus) http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~goodall/225s11/syllabus 2
Syllabus: Week 1: Sept. 4, 6 Introduction to Course, A Brief History of Generative Grammar, Properties of Merge Collins, Chris and Ed Stabler. 2012. A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax. Ms., NYU and UCLA. Chomsky, Noam. 1995. Chapter 4 in The Minimalist Program. Cambridge: MIT Press. [excerpt: pp. 241-249] Week 2: Sept. 11, 13 IP, CP and Head Movement Lasnik, Howard. 1995. The Forms of Sentences. An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Language, Vol. 1. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 283-310. Pollock, Jean-Yves. 1989. Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20, 3: 365-424. [Selected Pages] Extra: Lasnik, Howard and Juan Uriagereka. 2002. On the Poverty of Stimulus Challenge. The Linguistic Review 19: 147-150. Roberts, Ian. 2011. Head Movement and the Minimalist Program. In Cedric Boeckx (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Week 3: Sept. 18, 20 Word Order and Typology Kayne, Richard. 1994. The Antisymmetry of Syntax. MIT Press, Cambridge. Cinque, Guglielmo. 2005. Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 and its Exceptions. Linguistic Inquiry 36.3, pgs. 315-332. Extra: Longobardi, Giuseppe. 1994. Reference and Proper Names: A Theory of N-Movement in Syntax and Logical Form. Linguistic Inquiry 25.4, pgs. 609-665. Bernstein, Judy. 2001. The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the Nominal Domain. In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Mark Baltin and Chris Collins (eds.), pp. 536-561. Bernstein, Judy. 2008. Reformulating the Determiner Phrase Analysis. Language and Linguistics Compass 2, pgs. 1-25. Abney, Steven Paul. 1987. The English Noun Phrase in its Sentential Apsect. Doctoral Dissertation, MIT. 3
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