Universität Wien

160044 SE (BA-)Seminar on the Theory of Grammar (2013S)

Locality

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Note that this course is also offered as a BA seminar (ECTS 15)
Moodle

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 08.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 15.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 22.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 12.04. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 19.04. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 26.04. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 03.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 10.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 17.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 24.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 31.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 07.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 14.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 21.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 28.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar is about locality, a central notion in the Principles and Parameters framework, according to which all syntactic relations, whether created by movement or by binding, are local (i.e. do not exceed a certain 'length', or 'distance'). Topics to be discussed include locality in A-movement (passives, raising), object shift, scrambling, islands, and successive cyclic movement.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students are expected to attend, come to class prepared (i.e. do the readings in advance), make a presentation with a handout, and write a seminar 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 etc

Reading list

Boskovic, Zeljko. 2007. On the locality and motivation of Move and Agree: an even more minimal theory. Linguistic Inquiry 38(4):589-644.
Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. In M. Kenstowicz (ed.) Ken Hale: A Life in language. 1-52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 2008. On phases. In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory: Essays in Honor of J-R. Vergnaud. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Fox, Danny and David Pesetsky. 2004. Cyclic linearization of syntactic structure. Theoretical Linguistics 31:1-45.
Ko, Heejeong. 2007. Asymmetries in scrambling and cyclic linearization. Linguistic Inquiry 38(1):49-83.
Miyagawa, Shigeru. 2005. EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling. In J. Sabel and M. Saito (eds.) The Free Word Order Phenomenon. 181-220. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Rackowski, Andrea and Norvin Richards. 2005. Phase edge and extraction: a Tagalog case study. Linguistic Inquiry 36(4):565-599.
Rizzi, Luigi. 2001. Relativized Minimality. In M. Baltin and C. Collins (eds.) The
Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. 89-110. Oxford: Blackwell.
Saito, Mamoru. 2003. A derivational approach to the interpretation of scrambling chains. Lingua 113:481-518.
Stepanov, Arthur. 2007. The end of CED? Minimalism and extraction domains. Syntax 10(1):80-126.

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
Master allgemeine Linguistik: MA1-APM4B
Code Diplomstudium: 215

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