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Week 4: Sept. 25, 27 Case Theory, Agree and Uninterpretable Features
Pesetsky, David and Esther Torrego. 2011. Case. In Cedric Boeckx (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of
Linguistic Minimalism. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Lasnik, Howard and Juan Uriagereka. 1988. A Course in GB Syntax. MIT Press, Cambridge.
[Section 1.4] [NOT YET POSTED ON BLACKBOARD]
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Vergnaud, Jean-Roger. 1977. Letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik.
Legate, Julie. 2008. Morphological and Abstract Case. Linguistic Inquiry 39.1, pgs. 55-101.
Marantz, Alec. 2000. Case and Licensing. In Proceedings of ESCOL, 234–253.
Cornell Linguistics Club. Republished in Reuland (2000), pp. 11–30.
Adger, David. 2010. A Minimalist Theory of Feature Structure. In Kibort and Corbett (eds.),
Features. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Week 5: Oct. 2, 4 Binding Theory: The Basics
Koopman, Hilda, Dominique Sportiche, and Ed Stabler (to appear). An Introduction to Syntactic
Analysis and Theory. [Chapters 7 and 13]
Week 6: Oct. 9, 11 Binding Theory: Reconstruction
Barss, Andrew. 2002. Syntactic Reconstruction Effects. In Baltin and Collins (eds.), The
Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. Blackwell.
Huang, C.-T. James. 1993. Reconstruction and the Structure of VP: Some Theoretical
Consequences. Linguistic Inquiry 24.1, pgs. 103-138.
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Pesetsky, David. 2012. Phrasal Movement and its Discontents: Diseases and Diagnoses. To appear
in Lisa Cheng & Norbert Corver (eds.), Diagnostics in Syntax, Oxford University Press.
Sportiche, Dominique. 1988. A Theory of Floating Quantifiers and its Corollaries for Constituent
Structure. Linguistic Inquiry 19.3, pgs. 425-449.
McCloskey, Jim. 1997. Subjecthood and Subject Positions. In Liliane Haegeman (ed.), Elements of
Grammar. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecth.
Week 7: Oct. 16 (Fall Break), 18 Binding Theory: Minimalist Issues
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