LX523: Syllabus

Schedule of events.

Below is the current plan as to how the semester will proceed (although there may be some changes as the semester evolves). If possible, consult the course web page at http://lang.bu.edu/course/lx523/ for the most up-to-date schedule, rather than relying on a printed version. The Reading column lists the readings related to that week and should be done before class. The homeworks listed are due in the class after they are listed.

Week	Date	Topic		Reading
1	Mon Jan 23	Introduction, history, and agreement projections; the structure of argumentation. Handout.		Related literature: Fukui (2001), Belletti (2001), Roberts (1997, intro, ch. 1) Homework 1 and reading notes
2	Mon Jan 30	Phases, islands, and linearization of syntactic structure. Handout.		Readings: Fox & Pesetsky (2005) , Johnson (2002) Homework 2 and reading notes Discussants: DT, SH, MP, KW
3	Mon Feb 6	Adverbs. Handout.		Readings: Travis (1988), Bobaljik (1999), Rackowski (1998) Homework 3 and reading notes Discussants: HWC, AK, TI, HB
4	Mon Feb 13	Wh-movement		Readings: Bošković (2002), Richards (2004) Homework 4 and reading notes Discussants: EB, YJ, HC, JD
	Mon Feb 20	No class
5	Tue Feb 21	Tuesday class meeting (Monday schedule)
		Wh-in-situ. Handout (about next week)		Readings: Kim (2002), Hagstrom (2006) Homework 5 and reading notes Discussants: HWC, TI, JD, KV
6	Mon Feb 27	Topic, Focus, and the fine structure of the left periphery. Handout (about next week) Final paper/presentation/proposal specifications.		Readings: Rizzi (1999), É. Kiss (1998), Ko (2005) Homework: Think about your project proposal. Discussants: TVN, AM, EB, GS
	Mon Mar 6	No class (spring recess)
7	Mon Mar 13	Argument structure, double objects, have. Handout (about next week)		Readings: Harley (2002), Richards (2001), Mahajan (1997) Homework 6 Discussants: AK, YJ, TVN, SH
8	Mon Mar 20	Top-down syntax, Tree-adjoining grammar Handout (about next week)	Project proposal due	Readings: Phillips (2003), Frank (2006) Homework 7 Discussants: GS, MP, DT, KV
9	Mon Mar 27	Optimality in syntax Collected questions/comments		Readings: Pesetsky (1997), Müller (2001) Related: Legendre (2001) Discussants: HB, HC, KW, AM
10	Mon Apr 3	Conditions on ellipsis. Handout Part 1, and Part 2 Collected questions/comments		Reading: Johnson (2001) Guest discussant: Seungwan Ha
11	Mon Apr 10	Student conference (presentations) Low adverbs and participles Movement of NPIs (French, Japanese) Wh-the-hell questions Null subjects in adult and child language	Paper draft due	Presentations: HC, JD, MP, DT, KW
	Mon Apr 17	No class
12	Wed Apr 19	Wednesday class meeting (Monday schedule)
		Student conference (presentations) Gapping and ellipsis in Chinese Historical Japanese case marking and syntax Subject scrambling in Japanese Antecedent contained deletion Korean negation, light verbs, and acquisition Topics (and foci) in Hungarian syntax		Presentations: HWC, TI, YJ, AM, GS, TVN
13	Mon Apr 24	Student conference (presentations) Morphology and verb movement, focus on Greek Syntax of the (Italian) DP Negation and negative concord VP ellipsis in Korean Domain of idioms		Presentations: EB, HB, SH, AK, KV
	Semester ends (Fri Apr 28)