SRC (Part II)

Syntax Reading Circle (SRC) (Part II)

I decided to create this second site for our SRC chiefly for reasons of orderliness. The topics are in the same field as in Part I - our discursive approach to understanding key texts in the science of language remains unchanged - our minds remain argumentative - at least we try our best to achieve this. Here is an explicit bibliography, which will surely soon see an updated version.

Hopefully, our efforts will clarify some of the misunderstandings pervading the linguistic community to this day. These misunderstandings have led to highly entrenched opinions rather than open argumentative minds.

Dates

Syllabus / Topics / Issues

16.02.2009

(#16)

Text: Chomsky (1994) - BPS / Neven decided to write a paper on the previous session. Since I brought up some issues on fronting (or preposing as you may also informally call it), this paper might interest you.

Neven - Postscript

23.02.2009

(#17)

Text: Chomsky (1994) - BPS (especially the chapter on ordering phenomena) / Andreas volunteered to do a summary on the discussion on linearization phenomena. He checked how Kayne's account is taken up by Chomsky - a nice elaboration, indeed.

Andreas - BPS and Linearization

09.03.2009

(#18)

Text: Chomsky (1994) - BPS / This session concluded BPS. Some questions as to the importance of the text were raised, evaluating critically Chomsky's legacy and the stances taken by his followers and opponents.

23.03.2009

(#19)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - Categories and Transformations (CT) / We finally finished Chomsky's (1994) article on "Bare Phrase Structure" and have now embarked on the last chapter of Chomsky's famous and important work called The Minimalist Program. Michael did an extensive table of contents, and some first notes on the text are available.

Michael - CT-Contents

30.03.2009

(#20)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / Wherein we find that it is always the target that projects and that X' are not visible at the interfaces.

Iwo - CT - 4.3

Michael - CT - 4.4.1 - 4.4.3

09.04.2009

(#21)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / I tried to rely a bit on Uriagereka's great introduction called Rhyme and Reason from 1998. The full reference is in the remarks.

Iwo - Remarks on Session (#20) + CT - 4.4.4 + 4.4.5

15.04.2009

(#22)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / Chapters 4.5 through 4.5.1 and on to 4.5.2. Chapters on checking theory and some important distinction between [+/- interpretable F].

30.04.2009

(#23)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / Chapters 4.5.3, 4.5.4 and 4.5.5. On expletives, clause types and the Minimal Link Condition.

28.05.2009

(#24)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / 4.5.6 - 4.7.

Iwo - Notes on Session 24

04.06.2009

(#25)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / We are still somewhat stuck with the Minimal Link Condition and its exact definition. Furthermore, we saw that there are problems with Uriagareka's definition of Min(D) in Uriagereka (1998: 414). It lacks the part on "reflexive dominance", which was in the Chomsky text proper.

18.06.2009

(#26)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT

16.07.2009
(#27)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT
Since Chomsky (1995) quite frequently refers to this paper, I decided to have a look at it at see what is really in there.
Iwo - Notes on Hale + Keyser (1993)

25.07.2009
(#28)

Text: Hale + Keyser (1993): "On Argument Structure and the Lexical Expression of Syntactic Relations"
Michael - CT - 4.7.3+4

07.08.2009
(#29)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / Hale + Keyser (1993) / We are still trying to clarify some of the verb classes worked on by Hale and Keyser. Perhaps we will also have some time left to start with CT - 4.8, the chapter on "Order", where we will find some re-discussion of Kayne's LCA and the the way Chomsky fits it into his "Bare Theory".

14.08.2009
(#30)

Text: Chomsky (1995) - CT / 4.8 - 4.9 / Where we were looking at ordering phenomena from an LCA perspective, again. Michael created a very helpful handout on expletive constructions and economy. Please make abundant use of the links.
Iwo - CT - 4.8
Michael - CT - 4.9

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