Greeting, syntacticians. Long time, no blogging. On the off chance that you are still checking the blog, the readings for the Across-The-Board constructions week have now been posted to the readings page. We will have Seungwan Ha there to talk through the concepts and his work on the subject (and with the remaining time I …
At the end of class last time, I sort of alluded to the readings, but I only just now posted the specifics. The readings include, first, a number of excerpts from Cinque’s (1999) book on adverbial syntax, and, second, a paper by Travis & Rackowski on Malagasy and Nieuan, with reference to Cinque’s story about …
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I just noticed that I forgot to update the course web page, and I have now done it. It previously contained incorrect information about the readings for Tuesday. The readings for Tuesday are those listed on the homework sheet I handed out: Rizzi 1997 and Rizzi 1999. (If you read the Ko paper, sorry about …
Perhaps you could see what it was supposed to be, but in the tree diagram on p. 210 of the McCloskey article we’ll be talking about tomorrow, the daughters of I′ should be I and VP (not VP and VP).