Papers and books that we will use in the course 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 105), for you to borrow, photocopy, and return in a timely manner. Sometimes these are available for download from the author’s pages or from journals that we have institutional access to through Boston University. I have provided what links I know about. Sometimes the authors will have other interesting papers of theirs linked in as well.

Readings mentioned in the syllabus:

Abney, S. (1987). The English noun phrase in its sentential aspect. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bernstein, Judy, and Christina Tortora (2005). Two types of possessive forms in English. Lingua 115:1221-1242.

Cable, Seth (2008). There’s no such thing as pied piping. Ms., U Mass Amherst.

Chung, Sandra (2010). Six arguments for wh-movement in Chamorro. In Donna B. Gerdts, John C. Moore, and Maria Polinsky (eds.), Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic explorations in honor of David M. Perlmutter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 91-110.

Cinque, Guglielmo (1999). Adverbs and functional heads: A cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Collins, Chris (2005). A smuggling approach to the passive in English. Syntax 8(2):81-120.

Fox, Danny, and David Pesetsky (2005). Cyclic linearization. Theoretical Linguistics.

Haegeman, Liliane (2006). Thinking syntactically: A guide to argumentation and analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

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.

Hagstrom, Paul (2006). The heart of the question. Ms., Boston University.

Kishimoto, Hideki (2000). Indefinite pronouns and overt N-raising. Linguistic Inquiry 31(3):557-566.

McCloskey, James (2002). Resumption, successive cyclicity, and the locality of operations. In S. D. Epstein & T. D. Seely (eds.), Derivation and explanation in the minimalist program. Oxford: Blackwell. 184-226.

Pesetsky, D. (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.

Pesetsky, David (1997). Optimality theory and syntax: Movement and pronunciation. In D. Archangeli and D. T. Langendoen (eds.), Optimality theory: An overview. Blackwell.

Phillips, Colin (2003). Linear order and constituency. Linguistic Inquiry 34(1):37-90.

Rackowski, Andrea, and Lisa Travis (2000). V-initial languages: X or XP movement and adverbial placement. In A. Carnie & E. Guilfoyle (eds.) The Syntax of Verb-initial languages. Oxford University Press.

Ritter, Elizabeth (1991). Two functional categories in noun phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew. In S. Rothstein (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 25: Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing. San Diego: Academic Press.

Rizzi, Luigi (1997). The fine structure of the left periphery. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Rizzi, Luigi (1999). On the position “Int(errogative)” in the left position of the clause. Ms., Università di Siena.

And some others:

Adger, D., and G. Tsoulas (2004). Circumstantial adverbs and aspect. In J. Austin, S. Engelberg, and G. Rauh (eds.), Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure. John Benjamins. 45-66.

Bernstein, J. (2001). The DP hypothesis: Identifying clausal properties in the nominal domain. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Belletti, A. (2001). Agreement projections. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bobaljik, Jonathan (1999). Adverbs: The hierarchy paradox. Glot International 4(9/10):27-28.

Bobaljik, Jonathan (2002). A-chains at the PF-interface: Copies and “covert” movement.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20(2):197-267.

Bobaljik, Jonathan, and Susi Wurmbrand (2007). Case in GB/Minimalism. To appear in A. Malchukov (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford University Press.

Boskovic, Zeljko (2002). On multiple wh-fronting. Linguistic Inquiry 33(3):351-383.

Bowers, J. (2001). Predication. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Chomsky, Noam (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, Noam (2000). Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In R. Martin et al. (eds.), Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Culicover, Peter (1991). Polarity, inversion, and focus in English. ESCOL ’91: 46-68.

Frank, Robert (2006). Phase theory and Tree Adjoining Grammar. Lingua 116:145-202.

Fukui, Naoki (2001). Phrase Structure. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Grewendorf, Günther. (2001). Multiple wh-movement. Linguistic Inquiry.

Haegeman, Liliane (1997). Elements of grammar. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Haegeman, Liliane, and Raffaella Zanuttini (1991). Negative heads and the neg criterion. The Linguistic Review 8:233-251.

Haegeman, Liliane, and Raffaella. Zanuttini (1996). Negative concord in West Flemish. In A. Belletti and L. Rizzi (eds.), Parameters and functional heads. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harley, Heidi (2002). Possession and the double object construction. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2, available from here.

Iatridou, Sabine (1990). About Agr(P). Linguistic Inquiry 21(4):551-577.

Johnson, Kyle (1991). Object positions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9:577-636.

Johnson, Kyle (2001). Handbook article.

Johnson, Kyle (2002). Towards an etiology of adjunct islands. Ms., U. Mass., Amherst,available from here.

Kayne, Richard (1994). The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kim, Shin-Sook (2002). Intervention effects are focus effects. Japanese/Korean Linguistics10. CSLI: Stanford.

Kiss, Katalin É. (1998). Multiple topic, one focus? Acta Linguistica Hungarica 45(1/2):3-29.

Ko, Heejeong (2005). Syntax of why-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax.Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23:867-916

Koopman, Hilda (2000). The syntax of specifiers and heads. London: Routledge.

Larson, Richard (1988). On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19(3):335-391.

Legendre, Géraldine (2001). An introduction to optimality theory in syntax. In Legendre, Grimshaw, and Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Longobardi, Giuseppe. (1994). Reference and proper names. Linguistic Inquiry 25:609-65.

Longobardi, Giuseppe (2001). The structure of DP: Some principles, parameters, and problems. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mahajan, Anoop (1997). Universal Grammar and the typology of ergative languages. In Alexiadou & Hall (eds.), Studies on Universal Grammar and typological variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 35-57.

Marantz, Alec (1995). A reader’s guide to “A minimalist program for linguistic theory”. In G. Webelhuth (ed.), The principles and parameters approach to syntactic theory: A synopsis. Blackwell.

Marantz, Alec (1997). No escape from syntax: Don’t try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon. In A. Dimitriadis, L. Siegel, et al., eds., University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4.2, Proceedings of the 21st annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 1997, 201-225.

McCloskey, James (2001). The morphosyntax of WH-extraction in Irish. Linguistics 37:67-100.

McCloskey, James (1997). Subjecthood and subject positions. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Moro, A. (2000). Dynamic antisymmetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Müller, Gereon (2001). Order preservation, parallel movement, and the emergence of the unmarked. In Legendre, Grimshaw, and Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pesetsky, David (2000). Phrasal movement and its kin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pollock, Jean-Yves (1989). Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of IP.Linguistic Inquiry 20:365-424.

Pollock, Jean-Yves (1997). Notes on clause structure. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Rackowski, Andrea (1998). Malagasy adverbs. In Ileana Paul (ed.), The structure of Malagasy, volume II. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. 11-33.

Rackowski, Andrea, and Norvin Richards (2005). Phase edge and extraction: A Tagalog case study. Syntax 36(4):565-599.

Richards, Norvin (1999). Dependency formation and directionality of tree construction. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Richards, Norvin (2001). Paper in Linguistic Inquiry. About *the boot ruining Christmas.

Ritter, Elizabeth (1992). Cross-linguistic evidence for number phrase. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 37(2):197-218.

Roberts, Ian (1997). Comparative Syntax. London: Arnold.

Travis, Lisa (1988). The syntax of adverbs. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics: Special issue on comparative Germanic Syntax.

Travis, Lisa (1992). Inner aspect and the structure of VP. Ms., McGill.

Watanabe, Akira (2001). Wh-in-situ languages. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (1994) Re-examining negative clauses. In Cinque, et al. (eds.), Paths toward universal grammar. Georgetown University Press.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (1997). Negation and verb movement. In L. Haegeman (ed.), The new comparative syntax. New York: Addison-Wesley, Longman.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (2001). In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.