160132 PS Introductory seminar in this subject area (2016S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Tu 02.02.2016 08:00 to Su 21.02.2016 23:59
- Registration is open from Tu 23.02.2016 08:00 to Su 03.04.2016 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 03.04.2016 23:59
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Tuesday
08.03.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
15.03.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
05.04.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
12.04.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
19.04.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
26.04.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
03.05.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
10.05.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
24.05.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
31.05.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
07.06.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
14.06.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
21.06.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Tuesday
28.06.
12:30 - 14:00
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The thematic focus of this proseminar is on the verbal domain - that is, the verb (and the VP), the functional projections associated with it, the projection of its arguments (subject, object and so on). Specifically, an important part of the course is intended to deal with the motivation for VP shells (Larson 1988), the special status of the external argument and the case for little v/vP and VoiceP (Chomsky 1995, Kratzer 1996, Harley 2013 a.o.), unaccusativity (Perlmutter 1978, Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995 et seq.), the lexicalist versus non-lexicalist debate (Chomsky 1970, DiSciullo and Williams 1987, Marantz 1997), and what has since Ramchand (2008) been commonly referred to as 'first phase syntax'. Other issues that will be dealt with concern grammatical voice and voice alternations (such as active, passive, anti-passive), and the licensing of dative arguments and applicative syntax (Pylkkanen 2008, Schaefer 2008, Boneh and Nash 2012) in various languages and construction types (e.g. French: 'Je me fume une cigarette'; German: 'Dem Hans zerbrach die Vase', which is ambiguous between a benefactive/malefactive, possessor, and responsibility reading; and (varieties of) English: 'I love me some datives').
Assessment and permitted materials
Students are expected to participate actively, make a presentation with a handout, and write a summary paper of their own. Details will be discussed in class.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
Reading list
(Selected)
Boneh, Nora and Lea Nash. 2012. Core and non-core datives in French. In B. Fernandez and R. Etxepare (eds.) Variation in Datives 22-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 1970. Remarks on nominalization. In Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar 11-61. The Hague: Mouton.
Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Edwin Williams. 1987. On the Definition of Word. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Harley, Heidi. 2013. External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the distinctness of Voice and v. Lingua 125:34-57.
Kratzer, Angelika. 1996. Severing the external argument from its verb. In J. Rooryck and L. Zaring (eds.) Phrase Structure and the Lexicon 109-137. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Larson, Richard. 1988. On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry. 19(3):335–391.
Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport Hovav. 1995. Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 26. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Marantz, Alec. 1997. No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own Lexicon. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 4(2):201-225.
Perlmutter, David M. 1978. Impersonal passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 157–189.
Pylkkanen, Liina. 2008. Introducing Arguments. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ramchand, Gillian. 2008. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First-Phase Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schaefer, Florian. 2008. The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Boneh, Nora and Lea Nash. 2012. Core and non-core datives in French. In B. Fernandez and R. Etxepare (eds.) Variation in Datives 22-49. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 1970. Remarks on nominalization. In Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar 11-61. The Hague: Mouton.
Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Edwin Williams. 1987. On the Definition of Word. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Harley, Heidi. 2013. External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the distinctness of Voice and v. Lingua 125:34-57.
Kratzer, Angelika. 1996. Severing the external argument from its verb. In J. Rooryck and L. Zaring (eds.) Phrase Structure and the Lexicon 109-137. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Larson, Richard. 1988. On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry. 19(3):335–391.
Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport Hovav. 1995. Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 26. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Marantz, Alec. 1997. No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own Lexicon. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 4(2):201-225.
Perlmutter, David M. 1978. Impersonal passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 157–189.
Pylkkanen, Liina. 2008. Introducing Arguments. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ramchand, Gillian. 2008. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First-Phase Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schaefer, Florian. 2008. The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Association in the course directory
MA1-M3
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