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

Extra:
Breuning, Benjamin. 2010. Double Object Constructions Disguised as Prepositional Datives.
Linguistic Inquiry 41.2, pgs. 287-305.
Larson, Richard. 1988. On the Double Object Construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19: 335-391.
Baker, Mark and Collins Chris. 2006. Linkers and the Internal Structure of the vP. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 24, pgs. 307-354.
Week 12: Nov. 20, 22 (Thanksgiving) Catch-Up/Review
Week 13: Nov. 27, 29 Argument Structure: Unergatives, Unaccusatives, Need/Have
Thursday:
Student Presentation
Harley, Heidi. 2011. A Minimalist Approach to Argument Structure. In Cedric Boeckx (ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism, pgs. 427 – 448. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Harves, Stephanie and Richard Kayne. 2012. Having Need and Needing Have. Linguistic Inquiry
43.1, pgs. 120-132.
Extra:
Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport Hovav. 1995. Chapters 1-2 in Unaccusativity. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
Week 14: Dec. 4, 6 Argument Structure: Types of Objects
Postal, Paul. 2010. Edge-Based Clause Syntax. MIT Press, Cambridge [Forward and Chapter 2:
Objects and Arrays, pgs. 47 -74] [NOT YET POSTED ON BLACKBOARD]
Extra:
Landau, Idan. 2010. The Locative Syntax of Experiencers. MIT Press, Cambridge.
[NOT YET POSTED ON BLACKBOARD]
Week 15: Dec. 11, 13 Passive
Thursday: Student Presentation
Collins, Chris. 2005. A Smuggling Approach to the Passive in English. Syntax 8, 2: 81-120.
Chomsky, Noam. 1957. Syntactic Structures. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. [Selected Sections]
[NOT YET POSTED ON BLACBOARD]
Extra:
Baker, Mark, Kyle Johnson and Ian Roberts. 1989. Passive Arguments Raised. Linguistic Inquiry.
20: 219-251.
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