Universität Wien

160034 SE BA-Seminar on the Theory of Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics (2012W)

Relativsätze

Continuous assessment of course work

Details

Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 02.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG (Kickoff Class)
  • Tuesday 09.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 16.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 23.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 30.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 06.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 13.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 20.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 27.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 04.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 11.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 18.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 08.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 15.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 22.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Tuesday 29.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar will explore theoretical and empirical issues surrounding the syntax of relative clauses across several languages (primarily English and German). We will discuss the main types of relative clauses (namely: restrictive, appositive, free relative and correlative) and their analyses. Topics that we will pay special attention to include the copy theory of movement, internal versus external merge, matching effects, case syncretisms, and reconstruction effects. Concomitantly, we will look at some of the main studies in the processing literature on relative clauses, focusing in particular on subject vs. object processing asymmetries.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will have to make a presentation with a handout and write a BA paper. (Details will be discussed in class.)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Solide Kenntnisse des Phänomenbereichs, kritische Würdigung der wichtigsten theoretischen Arbeiten zum Thema.

Examination topics

Handouts

Reading list

Bhatt, R. 2003. Locality in Correlatives. NLLT.
Bianchi, V. 2000. The raising analysis of relative clauses: reply to Borsley. Linguistic Inquiry 31:123-140.
Bianchi, V. 2002. Headed relative clauses in generative syntax: Part I and II. In Glot International.
Borsley, R. 1997. Relative clauses and the theory of phrase structure. Linguistic Inquiry 28:629647.
Bresnan, J. and J. Grimshaw. 1978. The syntax of free relatives in English. Linguistic Inquiry 9 (3): 331-391.
Citko, B. 2001. Deletion under Identity in Relative Clauses, In NELS 31.
Demirdache, H. 1991. Resumptive chains in restrictive relatives, appositives and dislocation structures. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
Groos, A. and H. van Riemsdijk. 1981. Matching effects in free relatives: a parameter of core grammar. In A. Belletti et al. (eds.) Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar. Scuola Normale Superiore.
Izvorski, R. 1996. The syntax and semantics of correlative proforms. In NELS 28.
Kayne, R. 1994. The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
van Riemsdijk, H. 2000. Free Relatives. In Syncom: Case 44.
Salzmann, M. 2006. Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in indirect A’-dependencies. Doctoral dissertation. Utrecht: LOT.
Sauerland, U. 1998. The meaning of chains. Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Pp. 60-91.
Sauerland, U. and S. Husley. 2006. Sorting out Relative Clauses. Natural Language Semantics 14:111137.
deVries, 2002. The syntax of relativization. Doctoral dissertation, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics.

Association in the course directory

BA [Version 2008]: BA-APM7C,
Ba [Version 2011]: Ba-APM7C,
BA [Version 2008]: BA-M8,
Ba [Version 2011]: Ba-M8,
Code Diplomstudium: 215

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