Week

Date

Topic(s)

Reading(s)

(readings marked with an asterisk are optional)

The links are to papers freely available on the web.

I

Jan 10

Overview

Review  of wh-movement in the MP

Adger, D. 2003. Core Syntax.  Chapters 9-10.

II

Jan 17

Multiple Wh-Movement: syntax

Dayal, V. 2006. Multiple Wh-Questions.  In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Syntax Companion (Sections 1-2).

Boskovic, Z. 2002. On Multiple Wh-Fronting. Linguistic Inquiry 33:351-383. (available electronically in the library)

Grewendorf, G. 2001. Multiple Wh-Fronting. Linguistic Inquiry 32:87-122. (available electronically in the library)

III

Jan 24

Multiple Wh-Movement: interpretation

Boskovic, Z.  2003. On the interpretation of multiple wh-questions. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 1:1-15.

Dayal, Veneeta. 2002. Single-pair versus multiple-pair answers: Wh-in-situ and scope. Linguistic Inquiry 33:512-520.  (available electronically in the library)

Dayal, V. 2006. On Multiple Wh-Fronting. In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Syntax Companion (Sections 3-4).

Suranyi, B. To appear.  Focus structure and the interpretation of multiple questions. Information Structure and the Architecture of Grammar.

IV

Jan 31

Sluicing

Merchant, J. 2006. 2006. Sluicing. In Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), The Syntax Companion, 269-289. Blackwell: London.

Merchant, J. 2001. The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 2-3.

V

Feb 7

Sluicing

Merchant, J. 2001. The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 4-5.

VI

Feb 14

Sluicing: crosslinguistic considerations

Grebyenova, L. 2006. 2006. Multiple Interrogatives: Syntax, Semantics, and Learnability. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland - College Park. Selected chapters

VII

Feb 21

Conjoined wh wh-questions

Kazenin, K., 2001.In: On Coordination of Wh-phrases in Russian. Fourth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, November 28–30.

Merchant, J. and A. Giannakidou, 1988. Reverse sluicing in English and Greek. The Linguistic Review 15.2-3:233-256.(available in the library)

Liptak, A. Conjoined Questions in Hungarian. In

Multiple Wh-Movement 

VIII

Feb 28

Conjoined wh wh-questions

Zhang , N. 2007. The syntactic derivations of two paired dependency constructions. Lingua,  117: 2134-2158
Abstracts and Bibliography due

IX

Mar 6

Conjoined wh wh-questions

Gracanin-Yuksek. 2007. On Sharing. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.  Chapters 1,2,3 and 6. .(downloadable here)

X

Mar 13

Final Presentations

XI

Wed Mar  19

FINAL PAPERS DUE