Course Outline

Department of Linguistics

Linguistics 322-3

Syntax

Course Chair: Dr. Richard C. DeArmond
Office: CC 9208
Phone 291-3478
Fax 291-5659
e-mail : dearmond@sfu.ca
Language Lab: AQ 3020, 291-4698
My Home Page: http://www.sfu.ca/~dearmond/
Linguistics Home Page
Language Lab Home Page

FInal exam:

Note: All students must take the exams at the required and posted times.

Prerequisites: L222

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Timetable Summer 2004

Course Description:

Note: those files marked with "(pdf)" are written in pdf-format, and will open only with Acrobat Reader.

Linguistics 322 covers the logical structure (the organization) of syntax:


• How to Use the Grammars Designed for the Computer
  
  • Part 1: Phrase Structure Rules

    The Phrase structure rules are worked in my L222 notes: Course Outline 222.

    Some relevant files are listed here:

    Phrase Structure Rules

    Logical Structure of Phrases

    Basic Verb Classes

    Complements

    C-command

    Government

    Adjunction

    Conjunction

    Projection of X

    Modifiers and Complements

    Determiners

    Parts of Speech

    Bottom Up Rules

    Theta Roles

  • Part 2:

    Notes on Syntax by Andrew Carnie

    Notes on Chapter 1

    Notes on Chapter 2

    Notes on Chapter 3

    Notes on Chapter 4

    Notes on Chapter 5

    Notes on Chapter 6

    Notes on Chapter 7

  • Part 3: Alternative Analyses

• Axioms of Grammar (pdf)
  
• definitions (pdf)
  
• eventualities (pdf)
  
• grammar, presyntax, and lexical entries (pdf)
  
• flowcharts
  
• agreement (pdf)
  
• argument structure (pdf)
  
• argument structure of noun agreement (1) (pdf)
  
• feature linking (pdf)
  
• feature copying (pdf)
  
• Verb Operator and Inflection (pdf)
  
• verbal operators: tense, relevance, apsect, and voice (pdf)
  
• subject, head of PromP (pdf)
  
• Pro-forms (pdf)
  
• Principles (pdf)
  
• active voice and raising (pdf)
  
• passive voice and raising (pdf)
  
• dummy verbs and preposition (pdf)
  
• subject, targeting, agreement (pdf)
  
• theta roles (pdf
  
• negation operator (pdf)
  
• negation operator (old) (pdf)
  
• feature strong (pdf)
  
• mood (pdf)
  
• interrogative mood (pdf)
  
• mood
  
• event classes
  
• sense and reference
  
• raising
  
• question operator
  
• the feature [+Strong]
  
• theta roles (htm)
  
• theta roles continued (htm)
  
• barriers
  
• Case theory
  
• theta roles
  
• theta roles continued
  
• Ergative and Unaccusative Verbs
  
• the lexicon
  
• lexical insertion
  
• inflectional morphemes
  
• the feature Strong
  
• argument assignment
  
• predicate adjectives
  
• Prenominal Adjectives
  
• rules
  
• Implicit arguments
  
• internal subject hypothesis
  
• lexical insertion (2)
  
• raising from infinitives
  
• logical form of NP
  
• small clauses
  
• transformational processes
  
• some parameters of English
  
• X-bar theory
  
• complements vs modifiers
  
• the lexicon--continued
  
• preposing operator
  
• Negation Operator
  
• negation operator (HTM)
  
• control
  
• WH-operator
  
• echoes and disbelief
  
• islands
  
• relative clauses
  
• binding
  
• argument structure of WH-clauses
  
• incorporation
  
• rules and constraints
  

Texts

Required Text:

Syntax: A Generative Introduction, by Andrew Carnie. (2002). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-22544-7

Recommended Reading:

Transformational Grammar: A First Course, by Andrew Radford. (1988). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 34750 5

Transformational Grammar, by Jamal Ouhalla. London: Edward Arnold. ISBN=0340556307. Library Catalog: PE 1106 093 1994

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Introduction to Government and Binding Theory,' by Lilianne Haegeman. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell's. (1991). ISBN=0631165630. Library Catalog: P 158.2 H34.

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Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English,' by Scott Soames and David Perlmutter. (1979). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1979. Library Catalogue: P 291 P4

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A concise introduction to syntactic theory: the government-binding approach, by Elizabeth A. Cowper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992. ISBN= 0226116468. Library Catalogue: P 158.2 C6 1992.

English Syntax by Roderick A. Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1995). ISBN 0-19-434277-8.. Library Catalogue: P 291 P4

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Syntax: an Introduction to the Principles and Parameters Framework,' by Richard C. DeArmond. This manuscript, though out of date, is available on the WWW network. (Out of date.)


click here to read and print this manuscript.

Schedule for Summer 2004

Course Syllabus

A Model of Grammar

Model of Grammar

Structure of the Course:

The course is divided into six overlapping sections:

• Logical Form
• Theta Theory
• Feature Copying (Transformations)
• Feature Targeting (Transformations)
• Dummy Insertion (Transformations)
• X-Bar Theory
• Case Theory
• Binding Theory
• Control Theory

¬ÝCertain topics will be drawn from:

• Universal Grammar
• Parametric Theory
• Transformational Theory

Language Lab

Using the on-line services of the web is a requirement of the course. The language lab is accessible to all linguistics students.

Exercises:

¬ÝSource of Exercises

• Exercises will be supplied by the instructor. Few will come from the main text. It is the student's responsibility to obtain the exercises for each and follow the instructor's guide. Exercises will be available on the web.

List of Exercises

• To go to list of exercises click here.

Cgram, C-command, and Grammar

programmed grammar aids)

• Some exercises may be selected using Cgram, a program being designed for syntax students as an aid to learning syntax, or C-Command, which is designed to teach specific modules such as c-command, dominance, sisterhood, and government.

Late Exercises

• 50% will be taken for exercises not turned in at the end of class on the day required, and 70% per week will be taken off for exercises late by 24 hrs., unless excused by presenting a doctor's note or if there is an extenuating circumstance such as a death in the family. No other excuses will be acceptable. All grade discrepancies must be settled by the end of the last week of classes in the semester.
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Stapled Exercises

• All homework must be stapled together. 10% will be taken off for unstapled homework.
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Written Exercises

• Full credit will be given to exercises done on a word processor (or typewriter) (diagrams may be done by hand).
• 90% credit will be given if the exercises are written in ink (use of white out is acceptable).
• 0% credit to those written in pencil. Such exercises will be returned to the student unrecorded. In exams, pencil may be used for graphics only. Ink is still required for anything written.
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Exams

• All exams must be written in ink. The use of white-out is acceptable. Any exam written in pencil will be returned to the student unread.

Sample Exams and Answers to Given Exams:

• 322 F97 Midterm Answers
• 322 M01 Midterm Answers
• 322 M02 Midterm Answers
• 322 M03 Midterm Answers
• 322 M04 Midterm Answers
• 322 M03 Final Answers
• 322 Sample midterm
• 322 Sample final F97
• 322 Sample final F97 answers in part
• 322 Sample midterm S02
• 322 Sample midterm F94
• 322 Sample midterm F94 answers

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Course Grading

• The assignments will count for a total of 10% of the final grade, attendance 10%, the midterm exam 35% of the final grade, and the final exam 45% of the final grade. Grading will be determined on a fixed scale adjusted to a grading curve. The fixed scale before adjustment is: 100%-90% = A, 89%-80% = B, 79%-70% = C, 69% - 60% = D, 59% - 0% - F.

Marks

Keywords

On line

• Many materials are on line. All students are required to be able to access and download relevant information from the net. Machines are available in the language lab and on other places on campus. Tutorials will be offered for students who are not familiar with the web. See below.

Labs

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• If you do not have Netscape or Internet Explorer on your home computer, the best place to download Netscape and Acrobat Reader is in the Language Lab. It is located in AQ 3020 near the foot of the stairs leading up to the 9th floor where the Dept. of Linguistics is. I will set up an introductory session on how to use the lab and access Netscape leading you through select parts of my homepage and the course outline. Times will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Definitions

For an informal evaluation of this WWW site and L322, click on evaluation

¬ÝForum

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