This is the schedule, but it may be adjusted on occasion. Do not rely on a printed copy; instead, consult this page. Homework is assigned when it appears in the schedule, and due the class after it appears, usually a week from when it was assigned (e.g., homework 1 is assigned on a Thursday and due the following Thursday). The readings in the Readings column are those that pertain to the lectures that week. Readings are from the Adger textbook unless otherwise stated.
Date | Topic | Slides | Homework | Reading |
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Thu 9/3 | Competence, performance, and adequacy, principles, parameters, and UG | HW1 | (Ch. 1) | |
Tue 9/8 | Morphosyntactic features, categories | 2.1-2.4.1 | ||
Thu 9/10 | HW2 | 2.4.2-2.5 | ||
Tue 9/15 | Constituency, trees, Merge | 3.1-3.4 | ||
Thu 9/17 | Labels, theta roles, feature checking | HW3 | 3.5-3.6 | |
Tue 9/22 | C-command, binding theory | 4.4-4.3 | ||
Thu 9/24 | Linking (UTAH) and ditransitives | HW4 | 4.4-4.6 | |
Tue 9/29 | TP, MP, PerfP, ProgP, and Agree | 5.1-5.3 | ||
Thu 10/1 | Agree, movement, and the strength of features | HW5 | 5.4 | |
Tue 10/6 | ||||
Thu 10/8 | Verb movement and parameters | (HW5xc) | 5.5-6.3 | |
10/13 : BU Monday, no class | ||||
Thu 10/15 | DP | HW6 | 6.5-8, 7.1-2 | |
Tue 10/20 | Subjects and agreement, Case and passives | 6.5-6.8 | ||
Thu 10/22 | Theta roles in DP, little n, Possessors | HW7 | ||
Tue 10/27 | Finishing with little n, do-support | 7.3-7 | Thu 10/29 | Review/catching up | Practice midterm(s) (S14, key v1.1) |
Summary I | Tue 11/3 | Midterm (in class) |
Thu 11/5 | CP, PRO | HW8 | 8.1-8.2.5 | |
Tue 11/10 | ECM, raising, control | 8.2.6-8.3 | ||
Thu 11/12 | NO CLASS (SLD/BUCLD) | |||
Tue 11/17 | (ECM, raising, control, cont’d) | |||
Thu 11/19 | V2, wh-movement | HW9 | 8.4-8.5, 9.1-9.4 | |
Tue 11/24 | Review/catching up | — | ||
Thu 11/26: Thanksgiving break, no class | ||||
Tue 12/1 | (V2, wh-movement cont’d) | |||
Thu 12/3 | Locality and islands | HW10 | 9.5-9.9, 10.1-10.5 | |
Tue 12/8 | ||||
Thu 12/10 | Review/catching up/Covert movement | Practice finals, etc. | Summary Notes II | |
Final: Thu 12/17 3-5pm |