Some basic terminology in generative grammar
(especially on word order and with Russian equivalents)

Schedule and reading list

The New York Institute Linguistics Summer School in St. Petersburg

• NB!! Everyone must have done two HWs, from among #s 1, 2, 4 by April 30 to get full credit for the course. There will be one more LONGER homework, due May 21. This and your results on the 2 earlier homework will determine your grade.

Homework 2 (Gen of Negation)

Homework 3 (Irish WH-movement)

Homework 4 (Binding)

This semester's handouts

Schedule and Reading List

Handout 1 (Feb. 19) Phrase Structure

Handout on WH-movement (March 26)

Handout on Binding Theory (April 2-16)

**NEW**Handout on Binding and Levels (April 23)

1. JFB's papers:

Click here to go to all JFB's publications
(includes my papers on:
--Underlying Phrase Structure (1995) Journal of Slavic Linguistics
FASL Proceedings
--Genitive of Negation (1997) FASL Proceedings
--Case and Configuration (1995) The Linguistic Review
--Scrambling (2002) GLOT On-line Newsletter
--Derivational Approach to Scrambling (in press) FASL Proceedings
--Generalized Inversion (in press) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
and others)

2. Papers on case: (first two for the Genitive of Negation assignment)

Harves, S. (2001) "Genitive of Negation and the Existential Paradox" Journal of Slavic Linguistics

Borschev & Partee (2001) "The Russian Genitive of Negation: Theme-Rheme Structure or Perspective Structure?" Journal of Slavic Linguistics

Borschev and Partee. (2002) "O semantike bytijnyx predlozenij" (On the semantics of existential sentences) Semiotika i Informatika 37 (Moscow:VINITI):59-78.

Richardson (in press) "What Secondary Predicates in Russian tell us about the Link between Tense, Aspect and Case" ZAS Predication Conference Proceedings

Szucsich, L. (2001) "Nominal Adverbials and Case Licensing" FASL 10 Proceedings

Franks, S. and M. Yadroff (2001) "The Origin of Prepositions" FDSL 3 Proceedings

Ionin, T. (2001) "Scope in Russian: Quantifier Movement and Discourse Function" ms, MIT

Ionin, T. (2002) "The one girl who was kissed by every boy: Scope, scrambling and discourse function in Russian" Proceedings of ConSole X

Lavine, J. and R. Freidin (2001) "The Subject of Defective T(ense) in Slavic" Journal of Slavic Linguistics

Sigurdsson, H. (2001) "To be an oblique subject: Russian vs. Icelandic"Natural Language and Linguistic Theory