Richards (2006, in press)<\/a>, which attempts to predict the distribution of overt
\nand covert wh-movement by allowing syntax to make direct reference to prosodic
\nstructure.<\/p>\nWe will spend the semester applying this general way of thinking to a variety of
\n traditionally posited parametric differences between languages, eventually
\nattempting to develop explanations of cross-linguistic differences in
\nA-movement, the EPP, and head-movement that are rooted in observable
\ndifferences between languages. Time permitting, we will then go on to consider
\nphenomena such as scrambling and head direction (attempting to derive the
\neffects of the Final-over-Final Constraint). Along the way, we will develop
\nnew answers to a variety of traditional and not-so-traditional questions (why
\nis PRO always null? why is French participle agreement only possible with
\nobjects that undergo movement? why do some languages, but not others, allow
\nnominative subjects in infinitives (Szabolcsi 2007)? why can languages like
\nChichewa optionally leave wh in situ in all positions except for preverbal
\nsubjects, which must overtly move via clefting? why do some languages (e.g.,
\nNiuean, Chol) perform phrasal fronting of their predicates? why is
\nextraposition to the right of the verb in German possible just when the VP has
\nbeen topicalized (Haider’s puzzle)?)<\/p>\n
The class will thus have two major goals: we will try to deepen our explanations
\nfor a variety of syntactic phenomena, and to improve our general understanding
\nof the relationship between syntax and phonology. We will also do some general
\nreading of current work on the prosody-syntax interface.<\/p>\n
Registered students will be asked to do in-class presentations (either of
\nrelevant readings or of the student’s own research), and to hand in a (possibly
\nvery rough draft of a) final paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Instructor: Norvin Richards Room: 32-D461 Time: Tuesday 10-1 In Minimalist approaches to syntax, movement operations are sometimes said to occur in order to satisfy requirements imposed by the interfaces. In this class we will try to develop explicit theories of some of these requirements, on the PF side. We will take as our starting point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}