Papers and books/chapters that we will use will be listed here. If these are readings you’re being asked to do, they can be left outside my office (621 Commonwealth Ave., outside room 105) for you to borrow, photocopy, and return in a timely manner. See also the Readings page

Readings mentioned in the syllabus:

Bhat, D.N.S. (2000). The interrogative-indefinite puzzle. Linguistic Typology xx:xx-xx

Büring & Gunlogson (2000). Aren’t positive and negative polarity questions the same? Ms., UCSC. On semanticsarchive.net.

Cheng, Lisa (1997). On the typology of wh-questions. New York: Garland.

Cole, Peter, and Gabriella Hermon (1998). The typology of wh-movement: Wh-questions in Malay. Syntax 1(3):221-258.

Hagstrom, Paul (2003). What questions mean. Glot International 7(7/8):188-201. Manuscript.

Hagstrom, Paul (2006). A-not-A questions. In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax. Volume 1. Chapter 7. Oxford: Blackwell. Manuscript.

Hagstrom, Paul, and Svetlana McCoy (2003). Russian zhe. FASL xx. xx-xx. Manuscript.

Hamblin, C.L. (1958). Questions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 36(3):159-168.

Kitagawa, Yoshihisa (2005). Prosody, syntax and pragmatics of wh-questions in Japanese. English Linguistics 22(2): 302-346.

Pesetsky, David (1987). Wh-in-situ: Movement and unselective binding. In E. Reuland and A. ter Meulen (eds.) The representation of (in)definiteness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Richards, Norvin (2006). Beyond strength and weakness. Ms., MIT.

Rooth, Mats (1996). Focus. Handbook article.

Thornton, Rosalind (1990). Ph.D. dissertation.

Watanabe, Akira (2001). Loss of kakari-musubi. DIGS.

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Some other things:

Büring, Daniel (2003). On D-trees, beans, and B-accents. Linguistics & Philosophy 26:5. 511-545.

Chierchia, Gennaro (1991). Functional WH and weak crossover. WCCFL 10. 75-90.

Hagstrom, Paul (2000). The Movement of Question Particles. In M. Hirotani, A. Coetzee, N. Hall, and J.-Y. Kim (eds.), NELS 30: Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 275-286. Manuscript.

Hagstrom, Paul (2004). Particle movement in Sinhala and Japanese. In Dayal, V., and A. Mahajan (eds.), Clause Structure in South Asian Languages, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 227-252. Manuscript.

Kratzer, Angelika, and Junko Shimoyama (2002). Indeterminate pronouns: The view from Japanese. Paper presented at the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. On semanticsarchive.net.

Oiry, Maga, and Hamida Demirdache (2005). Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French. Ms., Université de Nantes.

Richards, Norvin (2000). An island effect in Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.