LIN 393: Topics in Wh and Polarity (Fall 2003)

Unique Number 38140, Fall 2003
BUR 220, W 2-5

Rajesh Bhatt rbhatt@mail.utexas.edu CAL 516, 471-1701 Office Hours: MF 11-12.30 or by appointment

Bernhard Schwarz schwarz@mail.utexas.edu CAL 405, 471-1701 Office Hours:

Syllabus

Requirements

Lectures

• [1]: An Introduction to Polarity, Aug 27
• [2]: Positive and Negative Polarity, Sep. 3
  Reading: Positive Polarity - Negative Polarity by Anna Szabolsci (to appear in NLLT, available at the Semantics Archive)
  Presentations by Fred Hoyt and Eric McCready
• [3]: Notes on Neg-Deletion, Sep. 10
  Reading: Positive Polarity - Negative Polarity by Anna Szabolsci (to appear in NLLT, available at the Semantics Archive)
  Presentations by Cheng-Fu Chen and Sadia Rahman
• [4]: even and Negative Polarity, Sep. 17
  Reading: Focus and Negative Polarity in Hindi by Utpal Lahiri (NALS 1998:6.1, available online through the UT Library website)
  Presentations by Fred Hoyt and Alex Teodorescu
• [5]: More on even, Sep. 24
  Reading: Even, Polarity, and Scope by Hotze Rullmann (available in the Hill Library)
• [6]: NPIs in Japanese (by Junko Shimoyama), Summary of the paper by Yamashita, Comments on the paper by Yamashita (by Junko Shimoyama), Oct. 1
  Readings: Negative Polarity Licensing and Interpretation by Peter Sells, On the distribution and licensing of NPIs in Japanese and the Phase Impenetrability Condition by Hideaki Yamashita
  Presentations by Hitoshi Horiuchi and Junko Shimoyama
• [7]: Negative Concord: Case studies from Romance, Oct. 8
  Handout on Negative Concord by Elena Guerzoni, Double Negatives, Negative Concord and metalinguistic negation by Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Elena Guerzoni (both on the Blackboard site)
  Presentations by Cristina Martinez and Tammy Perez
• [8]: Intervention Effects, Part 1, Oct. 15
  Readings: On wh- and operator scope in Korean by Sigrid Beck and Shin-Sook Kim (in Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1997:6:339-384), Quantified Structures as Barriers for LF-Movement by Sigrid Beck (in Natural Language Semantics 1996:4:1-56)
  Presentations by So-Hee Kim and Sadia Rahman
• [9]: Intervention Effects, Part 2, Oct. 22
  Reading: Intervention Effects on NPIs and feature movement: towards a unified account of intervention by Elena Guerzoni (to appear in NALS, on the Blackboard site)
  Presentation of Abstracts for the Georgetown conference on Negation and Polarity
• [10]: Intervention Effects, Part 3, Oct. 29
  Reading: Syntax of wh-in-situ: Merge into [Spec,CP] in the overt syntax by Heejeong Ko
  Presentations by Cheng-Fu Chen and Hitoshi Horiuchi
• [11]: NPIs in Y-N Questions, Part 1, Nov. 5
  Reading: Chs. 2, 3 of Why, even, ask? by Elena Guerzoni (on the Blackboard site)
  Presentations by Eric McCready (NPIs in Wh-Questions) and Henrietta Yang
• [12]: NPIs in Questions, Part 2, Nov. 12
  Reading: Ch. 4 of Why, even, ask? by Elena Guerzoni (on the Blackboard site)
  Presentations by Tammy Perez and So-Hee Kim
• [13]: Free Choice Items, Nov. 19
  Reading: Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese by Angelika Kratzer and Junko Shimoyama, available at the Semantics Archive)
  Presentations by Cristina Martinez and Alex Teodorescu
• [No Class]: Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 26
• [14]: Paper Presentations Part 1, Dec. 3
• [15]: Paper Presentations Part 2, Dec. 10