Schedule

This is the current view of how the semester will proceed, but the schedule will be adjusted from time to time. Do not rely on the printed copy; the truth is here: http://ling-blogs.bu.edu/lx423s17/schedule/. Homework will generally be assigned on Wednesdays and due on the following Wednesday. The readings in the Readings column are those that pertain to the lectures that week (so read them for the class they are listed by). [Gn] indicates an additional section for students in GRS LX 723.

Date Topic Reading Homework
JAN
R 19

History/introduction

None

HW1

T 24

(none / handout)

R 26

Problems of projection

Chomsky (2013)

HW2

T 31
FEB
R 2

HW3

T 7

Subjects/argumentation

McCloskey (1997)
R 9 No class, snow day

HW4

T 14 (cont'd) (cont'd)
R 16

Passive

Collins (2005)

HW5

T 21 No class, BU Monday
R 23

Passive (cont’d)

(cont'd)

HW6

T 28

Adverbs

Cinque (1999)
MAR
R 2
Rackowski & Travis
T 7
R 9
No class, spring recess
T 14

No class, snow day

R 16

Fine structure of the left periphery

Rizzi (1997) project proposal
T 21

Linearization [VC, EJ]

Fox & Pesetsky (2005)
R 23 Ko (2007)

HW7?

T 28

Constituency and derivation [WY, LM]

Phillips (2003)
R 30 Frank (2006)

project update

APR
T 4

DP [MB, AP]

Abney (1987, parts)
R 6 Ritter (1991)

paper draft

T 11

Optimality in syntax [KI, KT]

Legendre (2001)
R 13 Pesetsky (1997)
T 18

Ellipsis [PK, NG]

Johnson (2001)
R 20 Merchant (2006)
T 25

Presentations

TBA
R 27

Presentations

TBA
MAY
T 2

Presentations

TBA
Semester ends