Syntax Reading Group

Fall 2023: the Reading group will continue in a slightly more structured way, as a substitute for `Advanced Syntax': W 3-4:30 - on zoom

Spring 2023- W 3-4:30 - on zoom
11 January: Arche on Tense and aspect
18 January: Stowell, The Syntactic Expression of Tense
25 January: van Gelderen (2023) Cycles, chapter 4
1 February: ctd
8 February: van Gelderen (2023) Cycles, chapter 5 - 7
15 February: ctd
22 February: ctd
1 March: Ming on Statives; Pesetsky (2021) `Exfoliation'
8 March: Spring Break
15 March: Exfoliation continued
22 March: `The Lexicon', ch 1-2
29 March: `The Lexicon', ch 8
5 April: Messick (2020)
12 April: Lameli (2018)
Tuesday 18 April: 2-4pm, RBH 117 in person and on zoom, Tolli Eythórsson, Oblique Subjects in Indo European: a reassessment
19 April: 3-5 pm, RBH 117 in person and on zoom, Sirrý Sigurdardottir, Forecasting Language Change
26 April: last meeting for the semester

Fall 2022- W 3-4:30 - on zoom

August 24:The Generative Enterprise. Skim Chomsky 2021 (sent separately) and compare it with what he says in 2022.

August 31: Dynamic antisymmetry. Read Moro 2013 (sent separately).

September 7: The neural architecture and evolution of language. Hickok et al 2021 (https://psyarxiv.com/tewna).

September 14: Jabberwocky:  The Slithy Toves Slay Words and Rules. Pinker 1999. Words and Rules, chapter 3 (sent separately).

September 21: Cartography, Internal Merge, and Linear Order. Cinque & Rizzi 2022 (sent separately)

September 28: Agree. Baker in press (https://sites.rutgers.edu/mark-baker/wp-content/uploads/sites/199/2021/12/reflexive-voice-types-final-final-deanon.pdf)

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2022- W 3-4:30 - on zoom
19 January: Murphy 2021 on V to T in German
26 January: Argument Structure, Levin HO and article
2 February: Borer and Ramchand video
9 February: Levin on causatives
16 February: Friedmann, Belletti, and Rizzi (2020)
23 February: van Gelderen 2022 excerpts
2 March: Gartner (2021) and Collins & Groat
9 March: Spring break
16 March: Pro-drop in Maybrat by Servo
23 March: Arregi et al (2021) or Ke
30 March: No reading group. Two defenses instead:
29 March, 2 pm Servo Kocu - PhD; 30 March, 1:30 pm Abdullah Alasmari - MA
6 April: Chapters 1 and 3, Cycles book (in preparation)
13 April: Continued
20 April: Chomsky 2021
27 April: Witlschko 2013 on categories

Syntax Reading Group – Fall 2021 - W 3-4:30 - on zoom
1 September: Intros and what we've been up to
8 September: Chomsky 2021
15 September: Chomsky 2021 ctd
22 September: Chomsky 2021 ctd
29 September: Chomsky 2021 ctd
6 October: Elly's notes on Chomsky 2021
13 October: Fall break
20 October: William's notes on Chomsky 2021
27 October: Lectures on Government and Binding
3 November: Questions on LGB
10 November: no meeting
17 November: empty categories in LGB
24 November: TBA

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2021 - W 11-1 - on zoom
13 January: Achievements in GG, d'Alessandro
20 January: various topics (Johanna and Elly)
26 January: bracketing and Uchihara & Gutiereez (2020)
3 February: Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely (2018)
10 February: Smuggling (Collins 2005)
17 February: Collins & Kayne (2020)
24 February: Moro & Roberts (2020)
3 March: Ledgeway (2012)
10 and 17 March: break
24 March: Branan & Erlewine (2020)
31 March: Elly on language variation and determinacy
7 April: Hale 1983
21 April: Roundtable

Syntax Reading Group – Fall 2020 - W 11-1 - on zoom
26 August: Labeling and Determinacy, Elly's chapter 1 (2020)
2 September: Chomsky 2015
9 September: Chomsky 2015
16 September: Song 2020
23 September: Hu 2020
30 September: Borer 2014
7 October: Borer ctd; Krivochen's `whatknot'
14 October: `Fall break'
21 October: Krivochen's Workspaces in Syntax
28 October: Chomsky 2020
4 November: Diego Krivochen guest lecture
11 November: Veteran's Day
18 November: Kayne 2020
25 November: Roundtable

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2020 - W 11-1 - RBH 324 and zoom
15 January: Chomsky, Gallego, & Ott 2019, in CJL
22 January: Intro on Third Factors (EvG) and Yang et al 2017
29 January: Yang 2018
5 February: Baker 2014 on Case
12 February: Barany 2015 - on DOM
19 February: Barany ctd
26 February: Saito 2016 - A Case for Labeling
4 March: Raposo & Uriagereka 2005 Clitic Placement
11 March: Spring Break
18 March: Jabob on clitics; Elly on V2 and Determinacy
25 March:Chomsky 2008, On Phases
1 April: OP continued
8 April: Deal 2020, Saturation paper
15 April: Deal continued
22 April: Coon & Keine 2020, Feature Gluttony
29 April: Roundtable on Parameters, etc!

Syntax Reading Group – Fall 2019 - W 11-1 - RBH 324
2 October: Shim 2018 phi-phi-less labeling
9 October: Mizuguchi 2017 Labelability and Interpretability
16 and 23 October: Chomsky's MIT lectures from April 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r514RhgISv0&list=PLy5sogEChOrW84DJY2LcWQv7zV0kKVzOT&index=35&t=1s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHew_smDjY&list=PLy5sogEChOrW84DJY2LcWQv7zV0kKVzOT&index=36&t=7s
30 October: Review of earlier work. Hornstein 2018 (http://ling.umd.edu/assets/publications/Hornstein-18-MiminalistProgramAfter25Years.pdf)
6 November: Phases BEA by Boeckx and `what for' by Elly
13 November: `What for' ctd and Multiple wh-fronting
20 November: Boskovic on the timing of labeling
27 November: questions and current work

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2019 - W 11-1 - RBH 324
16 January: Lasnik 2018
23 January: vetting abstracts
30 January and 6 February: Boskovic 1998
13 February: Hornstein 1999
20 February > 22 February Round Table: Newmeyer 1999 and 2010
13 March: Mekhlid on Existentials
20 March:, Elly on new modals
27 March: William; 3 April: Johanna; 10 April: Jacob

Syntax Reading Group – Fall 2018 - W 11-1 - RBH 324
22 August: Boskovic 2016 on transfer of phases rather than complements of phases
29 August: no reading group
5 September: Boskovic continued
12 September: Relative clauses, externally-headed vs raising
19 and 26 September: Chomsky 2013, 2015, 2017
Remainder: William Kruger's Chapter 4; Nelson et al 2017; LIWC article; Goto & Ishii 2018 on MERGE and Determinacy; Stepanov 2007.

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2018 - W 11-1 - RBH 324
10 January: Law & Ndayiragije 2017
17 January: Moro 2007
Remainder of semester: Dechaine & Wiltschko 2017; Zribi-Hertz 1989; van Gelderen 2018; Sorace 2000; Huijbregts 2018; Yang 2018; Coon & Parker 2018

Syntax Reading Group – Fall 2017 – W 11-1 - RBH 103
23 August: Chomsky video
30 August: 2 chapters on aspect
6 September 2017: Obato et al
13, 20, and 27 September 2017: Chomsky, Gallego, Ott 2017
4 and 11 October Huybregts 2017
18 and 25 October: Bruening 2014 and Bruening 2009
1 and 8 November: Bobaljik on Q-float
22 and 29 November: Carstens on Labeling and Concord

Syntax Reading Group – Spring 2017 – W 11-1 - LL 316
11 January 2017: Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch 2002; Chomsky 2005
18 January 2017: Bošković 2016
25 January 2017: BT and phases: discussion of HO and Chomsky 1981
1 February 2017: Despić 2015
8 February 2017: Despić continued
15 February 2017: Yang, Crain, Berwick, Chomsky, and Bolhuis to appear
22 February 2017: Yang et al ctd.
Break, 2 weeks
15 March 2017: Totsuka 2015, chapter 3
22 March 2017: Chomsky 2017 video and discussion.
29 March 2017: video ctd
5 April 2017: Dayal 2017
12 April 2017: Elisabeth on the left periphery
19 April 2017: Sakshi on the Hindi DP
26 April 2017: Mohammed on the Arabic DP; Epstein et al 2016.

Links to Chomsky videos:

·         Link to the Feb 22-2017 Lecture: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7be79007-580e-4ce3-be6b-86e15ec1d31f

·         Link to the Feb 15-2017 Lecture: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ffc10890-ee50-4883-bb12-c301c4cfede2

·         Link to the Feb 8-2017 Lecture: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7a6539e5-fbcf-44e4-a599-eb7da5abc8a9