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    This document provides the schedule and assignments for an English linguistics syntax seminar in the spring of 2018. It includes 12 sessions over 12 weeks covering topics like parts of speech, word categories, predicates, arguments, phrase structure rules, X-bar theory, movement, and determiner phrases. Readings are assigned from the textbook each week and there are three tests scheduled - one each on chapters 1, 2, and 3 & 4. Students are given terminology exercises ("TYK") to complete for the following week based on that session's content.

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    This document provides the schedule and assignments for an English linguistics syntax seminar in the spring of 2018. It includes 12 sessions over 12 weeks covering topics like parts of speech, word categories, predicates, arguments, phrase structure rules, X-bar theory, movement, and determiner phrases. Readings are assigned from the textbook each week and there are three tests scheduled - one each on chapters 1, 2, and 3 & 4. Students are given terminology exercises ("TYK") to complete for the following week based on that session's content.

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    English Lingx Dept Syntax Seminar Schedule Lázár spr 2018 Mon Rm 442

    # Date Topic Assignment for following week

    1 12 Feb text / topic


    Topics, Check Qs, TYK & Suggested Answers introduced Ch 1 TYK 1: SOOA (continued)
    Ch 1 TYK 1: SOOA begun Ch 1 TYK 7: morphological analysis (easi-er)
    Ch 1 TYK 4: N+V+N etc Ch 1 TYK 8: POS John likes eating…
    Ch 1 TYK 9: more POS in leaves etc
    2 19 Feb Ch1 TYK 11: embedded clauses
    Ch 1 text / topic
    4–10 Word categories Ch1 TYK 2: arguments
    pp 10–24 Word categories typology Ch 1 TYK 3: theta roles
    Predicates & arguments Ch 1 TYK 5: 1/2/3 place predicates
    3 26 Feb text / topic
    Ch 1 Ch 1 TYK 6: θ/F categ. The boy in…
    Thematic categories: Verbs Ch 1 TYK 10: lexical entries
    pp 24–8 (Ns), 28–36 (As, Ps) Ch 1 TYK 12: lexical entries
    pp 37–47: functional categories
    4 5 Mar Test 1 (40 mins, 200%) on Ch 1 text / topic
    Ch 1 Ch 1 TYK 13: lexical entries
    pp 47–49 underspecified categories Ch 3 TYK 8: lexical entries
    5 12 Mar text / topic
    Ch 2 pp 57–67: structure Ch 2 TYK 1: rewrite rules
    pp 67–68: rules Ch 3 TYK 6: abstract bracket to tree
    Ch 3 TYK 7: abstract tree to bracket
    6 19 Mar text / topic
    Ch 2 pp 68–72 GFs: Subject Ch 2 TYK 2: identify constituents
    pp 72–75: Objects Ch 2 TYK 3: explain ungrammaticality

    7 26 Mar text / topic


    Ch 2 pp 75–84: testing for structure revise for Test 2

    8 9 Apr Test 2 (30 mins, 100%) on Ch 2


    text / topic
    Ch 3 pp 87–94: X bar; Heads & Complements

    9 16 Apr text / topic


    Ch 3 pp 95–101: specifiers, adjuncts Ch 3 TYK 1: (im)possible configurations

    all of these are Ch 3 TYKs :


    3, 15, 16: compounds
    10: identify adjuncts
    14: explain ungrammaticality
    13: give X-bar structure
    12: explain (un)grammaticality
    10 23 Apr text / topic
    Ch 3 pp 101–104: movement
    pp 104– 110 DS vs SS; θ theory Ch 3 TYK 4: θ criterion explains ungramm.
    Ch 3 TYK 5: compare GF’s and θ roles
    (Ch 3 pp 110–118: K theory, traces Ch 3 TYK 18: thematic roles
    the Projection Principle; chains; pp 119–20 raising)
    11 7 May text / topic
    Ch 4 DP
    pp 128–143

    12 14 May Test 3 (90 mins, 300%) on Chs 3 & 4

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