EL5101 Grammatical Analysis 2020
| Michael Yoshitaka ERLEWINE (mitcho) |
| mitcho@nus.edu.sg |
| Office hours: Tuesdays 10:30am |
| In-person meetings are Fridays at 6pm, online. |
| Syllabus PDF |
Schedule
| Week | Topic | Reading | Meeting | Submit before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Course intro | Aug 14 | ||
| 2 | Grammatical knowledge; constituency | Chomsky 1986 ch. 1–2, CS2 | Aug 21 | Survey |
| 3 | Building structure | CS3 | Aug 28 | PS1 |
| 4 | Argument asymmetries, vP | CS4 | Sep 4 | |
| 5 | Subjects | CS6.1–6.2; optional: McCloskey 1997 | Sep 11 | PS2 |
| 6 | Intransitive subjects | CS4.5, 6.4; optional: Perlmutter 1978 | Sep 18 | PS3 |
| Recess | Test 1 Sep 25 | |||
| 7 | Case and agreement | CS6.3; Pesetsky & Torrego 2011 | Oct 2 | |
| 8 | Auxiliaries and head movement | CS5 | Oct 9 | PS4 |
| 9 | Embedded clauses | CS8 | Oct 16 | PS5 |
| 10 | V2 and wh-movement | CS9 | Oct 23 | |
| 11 | Long-distance movement | CS10 | Oct 30 | PS6 |
| 12 | Copies and Spell-Out / Review | Nov 6 | ||
| language report due Nov 7 | ||||
| 13 | Test 2 Nov 13 | |||
| Bonus class | Erlewine 2018 (see copy on Luminus) | Nov 20? |
CSn = section/chapter n in Adger 2003 Core Syntax