Schedule

Date Topic Homework Text
1/19 Introduction (1)
1/21 Morphosyntactic features, categories 2.1–2.4.1
1/26 (cont’d) 2.4.2–2.5
1/28 Constituency, trees, Merge HW1 3.1–3.4
2/2 Labels, theta roles, feature checking 3.5–3.6
2/4 C-command, binding theory HW2 4.1–4.3
2/9 UTAH, ditransitives 4.4–4.6
2/11 TP, MP, PerfP, ProgP, and Agree HW3 5.1–5.3
2/16 No class (BU Monday)
2/18 Agree, movement, feature strength 5.4
2/23 (cont’d)
2/25 Verb movement and parameters HW4 5.5–6.3
3/1 Review 6.5–6.8, 7.1–7.2
3/3 Midterm
3/8 No class (Spring recess)
3/15 DP 7.1–7.2
3/17 Subjects, agreement, Case, passives HW5 6.5–6.8
3/22 Theta roles in DP, Possessors 7.3–7.7
3/24 (cont’d) HW6
3/29 CP, PRO 8.1–8.2.5
3/31 ECM, raising, control HW7 8.2.6–8.3
4/5 (cont’d)
4/7 V2, wh-movement HW8 8.4–8.5, 9.1–9.4
4/12 (cont’d)
4/14 (cont’d) HW9
4/19 Locality and islands 9.5–9.9, 10.1–10.5
4/21 (cont’d) HW10
4/26 Covert movement
4/28 Review