CJJ22 Advanced Syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Starke, Docteur es Lettres (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 D31
Prerequisites
The students must be familiar with the basic concepts of syntactic theory that are a part of the BA curriculum. This knowledge corresponds to either one of the two following courses: 1) CJJ06 Současný český jazyk – syntax, or 2) CJBB179 Syntax češtiny – překlenovací seminář. These courses are centered around L. Haegeman's textbook Thinking Syntactically. (Familiarity with similar textbooks are also fine, e.g., Adger: Core syntax etc.)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
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Course objectives
The goal of the class is to become familiar with modern syntactic theories and the empirical data that motivate it.
Learning outcomes
The students will be able to:
- understand current syntactic theory;
- apply current syntactic theory to novel Czech data;
- write a short paper on a chosen syntactic issue;
- critically evaluate new findings in theoretical syntax;
- propose and explain a suitable method for the investigation of syntactic phenomena;
- summarise the important features of various current approaches to a particular syntactic phenomenon.
Syllabus
  • 1. Mirror Principle, head movement vs. Phrasal movement (Harley on Head movement).
  • 2. Greenberg's Universal 20 (Cinque 2005 vs. Abels Neeleman 2012) 3. Beyond U20 (Cinque 2009, ...).
  • 4. Case Theory (McFadden 2004, Baker-Vinokurova 2012).
  • 5. Control (Polinsky-Potsdam, Hornstein, vs. Landau).
  • 6. Relativised minimality (Rizzi, Starke).
  • 7. Lexical decomposition (Harley, Ramchand).
Literature
    required literature
  • RIZZI, Luigi. Relativized minimality. The MIT Press, 1990.
  • ABELS, Klaus; NEELEMAN, Ad. Linear asymmetries and the LCA. Syntax, 2012, 15.1: 25-74.
  • MCFADDEN, Thomas. The position of morphological case in the derivation. Philadelphia, PA: UPenn dissertation, 2004.
  • POLINSKY, Maria; POTSDAM, Eric. Backward control. Linguistic Inquiry, 2002, 33.2: 245-282.
  • Hornstein, Norbert. 1999. 'Movement and Control', Linguistic Inquiry 30, 69–96.
  • LANDAU, Idan. The scale of finiteness and the calculus of control. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2004, 22.4: 811-877.
  • STARKE, Michal. Move dissolves into Merge: A theory of locality. 2001. PhD Thesis.
  • Harley, Heidi. Lexical decomposition in modern generative grammar. n Handbook of Compositionality, edited by Wolfram Hinzen, Markus Werning and Edouard Machery, p. 328-350. Oxford: OUP. Publication year: 2012
  • Harley, Heidi. Getting morphemes in order: Merger, Affixation and Head-movement. In Diagnosing Syntax, Lisa Cheng and Norbert Corver (eds), Oxford: OUP. pp. 44-74 Publication year: 2013
  • BAKER, Mark C.; VINOKUROVA, Nadya. Two modalities of case assignment: Case in Sakha. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2010, 28.3: 593-642.
  • CINQUE, Guglielmo. Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and its exceptions. Linguistic inquiry, 2005, 36.3: 315-332.
Teaching methods
Lecture, discussion.
Assessment methods
During the term, students take part in discussion sessions. The final grade is based on a paper where the student summarises two current competing analyses of a particular empirical topic and will argue in favor of one or the other on the basis of empirical facts.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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