I’m posting a PDF version of the handout from class today regarding your first language description write-up. Â Remember that the first write-up is due on Thursday, Feb. 11 (not on Tuesday Feb. 9, as was originally listed on the syllabus). Language Description Write-up #1: Ideas, Tips, and Suggestions
For Thursday 2/4, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Potsdam, Eric. 1997. NegP and subjunctive complements in English. Linguistic Inquiry 28: 533-541. The Potsdam paper provides an empirical argument for the syntactic structure of the English clause/standard negation that we will develop in …
For Thursday 1/28, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Dryer, Matthew. 1989. Universals of negative position. In Studies in Syntactic Typology, M. Hammond, E. Moravcsik, and J. Wirth (eds), 93-124. Amsterdam:Â John Benjamins. (Remember that the password for the “Readings” section is listed on …
For next Tuesday 1/26, please (re-)read section 2 of Payne 1985. (Sections 2.5 and 2.6 are optional, as are sections 3 and 4. Â But if you have the time, do take a look at them. Â They contain some discussion that unfortunately, we won’t have time to cover in class.) For section 2.1.2, read carefully until …
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