Syllabus Syntax I LING-GA 1310-001 Instructor - NYU > Department ...

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.
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