Bibliography

Papers and books that we will use will be listed here. If these are readings you're being asked to do, they can be left outside my office suite (718 Commonwealth Ave., 4th floor, outside 401) for you to borrow, photocopy, and return in a timely manner.

Readings mentioned in the syllabus (and a few others):

Adger, D., and G. Tsoulas (2004). Circumstantial adverbs and aspect. In J. Austin, S. Engelberg, and G. Rauh (eds.), Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure. John Benjamins. 45-66.

Bernstein, J. (2001). The DP hypothesis: Identifying clausal properties in the nominal domain. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Belletti, A. (2001). Agreement projections. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bobaljik, Jonathan (1999). Adverbs: The hierarchy paradox. Glot International 4(9/10):27-28.

Bobaljik, Jonathan (2002). A-chains at the PF-interface: Copies and "covert" movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20(2):197-267.

Bošković (2002), Željko (2002). On multiple wh-fronting. Linguistic Inquiry 33(3):351-383.

Bowers, J. (2001). Predication. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Chomsky, Noam (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, Noam (2000). Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In R. Martin et al. (eds.), Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cinque, Guglielmo (1999). Adverbs and functional heads: A cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Culicover, Peter (1991). Polarity, inversion, and focus in English. ESCOL '91: 46-68.

Fox, Danny, and David Pesetsky (2005). Cyclic linearization. Theoretical Linguistics.

Frank, Robert (2006). Lingua(?).

Fukui, Naoki (2001). Phrase Structure. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Grewendorf, Günther. (2001). Multiple wh-movement. Linguistic Inquiry.

Haegeman, Liliane (1997). Elements of grammar. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Haegeman, Liliane, and Raffaella Zanuttini (1991). Negative heads and the neg criterion. The Linguistic Review 8:233-251.

Haegeman, Liliane, and Raffaella. Zanuttini (1996). Negative concord in West Flemish. In A. Belletti and L. Rizzi (eds.), Parameters and functional heads. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hagstrom, Paul (2006). The heart of the question. Ms., Boston University.

Hagstrom, Paul (2004). Particle movement in Sinhala and Japanese. In Dayal, V., and A. Mahajan (eds.), Clause Structure in South Asian Languages, Dordrecht: Kluwer. 227-252.

Harley, Heidi (2002). Possession and the double object construction. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2, available from here.

Iatridou, Sabine (1990). About Agr(P). Linguistic Inquiry 21(4):551-577.

Johnson, Kyle (1991). Object positions. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9:577-636.

Johnson, Kyle (2001). Handbook article.

Johnson, Kyle (2002). Towards an etiology of adjunct islands. Ms., U. Mass., Amherst, available from here.

Kayne, Richard (1994). The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kim, Shin-Sook (2002). Intervention effects are focus effects. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10. CSLI: Stanford.

Kishimoto, Hideki (2000). Indefinite pronouns and overt N-raising. Linguistic Inquiry 31(3):557-566.

Kiss, Katalin É. (1998). Multiple topic, one focus? Acta Linguistica Hungarica 45(1/2):3-29.

Ko, Heejeong (2005). Syntax of why-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23:867-916

Koopman, Hilda (2000). The syntax of specifiers and heads. London: Routledge.

Larson, Richard (1988). On the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19(3):335-391.

Legendre, Géraldine (2001). An introduction to optimality theory in syntax. In Legendre, Grimshaw, and Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Longobardi, Giuseppe. (1994). Reference and proper names. Linguistic Inquiry 25:609-65.

Longobardi, Giuseppe (2001). The structure of DP: Some principles, parameters, and problems. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mahajan, Anoop (1997). Universal Grammar and the typology of ergative languages. In Alexiadou & Hall (eds.), Studies on Universal Grammar and typological variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 35-57.

Marantz, Alec (1995). A reader's guide to "A minimalist program for linguistic theory". In G. Webelhuth (ed.), The principles and parameters approach to syntactic theory: A synopsis. Blackwell.

Marantz, Alec (1997). No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon. In A. Dimitriadis, L. Siegel, et al., eds., University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4.2, Proceedings of the 21st annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 1997, 201-225.

McCloskey, James (1997). Subjecthood and subject positions. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

McCloskey, James (2001). The morphosyntax of WH-extraction in Irish. J. Linguistics 37:67-100.

McCloskey, James (2002). Resumption, successive cyclicity, and the locality of operations. In S. D. Epstein & T. D. Seely (eds.), Derivation and explanation in the minimalist program. Oxford: Blackwell. 184-226.

Moro, A. (2000). Dynamic antisymmetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Müller, Gereon (2001). Order preservation, parallel movement, and the emergence of the unmarked. In Legendre, Grimshaw, and Vikner (eds.), Optimality-theoretic syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pesetsky, D. (1987). Wh-in-situ: Movement and unselective binding. In E. Reuland and A. ter Meulen (eds.) The representation of (in)definiteness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pesetsky, David (1997). Optimality theory and syntax: Movement and pronunciation. In D. Archangeli and D. T. Langendoen (eds.), Optimality theory: An overview. Blackwell.

Pesetsky, David (2000). Phrasal movement and its kin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Phillips, Colin (2003). Linear order and constituency. Linguistics Inquiry 34(1):37-90.

Pollock, Jean-Yves (1989). Verb movement, universal grammar, and the structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20:365-424.

Pollock, Jean-Yves (1997). Notes on clause structure. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Rackowski, Andrea (1998). Malagasy adverbs. In Ileana Paul (ed.), The structure of Malagasy, volume II. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. 11-33.

Richards, Norvin (1999). Dependency formation and directionality of tree construction. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 33. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Richards, Norvin (2001). Paper in Linguistic Inquiry. About *the boot ruining Christmas.

Richards, Norvin (2004). Against bans on lowering. Linguistic Inquiry 35(3):453-463.

Ritter, Elizabeth (1991). Two functional categories in noun phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew. In S. Rothstein (ed.), Syntax and Semantics 25: Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing. San Diego: Academic Press.

Ritter, Elizabeth (1992). Cross-linguistic evidence for number phrase. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 37(2):197-218.

Rizzi, Luigi (1997). The fine structure of the left periphery. In L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of grammar: A handbook of generative syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Rizzi, Luigi (1999). On the position "Int(errogative)" in the left position of the clause. Ms., Università di Siena.

Roberts, Ian (1997). Comparative Syntax. London: Arnold.

Travis, Lisa (1988). The syntax of adverbs. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics: Special issue on comparative Germanic Syntax.

Travis, Lisa (1992). Inner aspect and the structure of VP. Ms., McGill.

Travis, Lisa, and Andrea Rackowski (2000). V-initial languages: X or XP movement and adverbial placement. In A. Carnie & E. Guilfoyle (eds.) The Syntax of Verb-initial languages. Oxford University Press.

Watanabe, Akira (2001). Wh-in-situ languages. In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (1994) Re-examining negative clauses. In Cinque, et al. (eds.), Paths toward universal grammar. Georgetown University Press.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (1997). Negation and verb movement. In L. Haegeman (ed.), The new comparative syntax. New York: Addison-Wesley, Longman.

Zanuttini, Raffaella (2001). In Baltin, M., and C. Collins (eds.), The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory. Oxford: Blackwell.