LISSIM 4 Readings

4th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains

sponsorsed by

CIIL, Mysore

10th - 30th June 2009
Kausani, Uttarakhand, India
Web Site: http://www.fosssil.in/
Call Deadline: 15th December 2008

READINGS

Topics in DP Syntax and Semantics

Longobardi

	The Structure of DPs: some principles, parameters and problems
	Reference to Individuals, Person, and the Variety of Mapping Parameters
	Toward a Unified Grammar of Reference
	Evidence for syntax as a signal of historical relatedness (with Cristina Guardiano)
	ON THE CONFIGURATIONAL NATURE OF ADJECTIVAL MODIFICATION -- PAOLA CRISMA
	English th- Form -- Judy B. Bernstein

Adger

Do nouns take arguments in the same way that verbs do? We take Chomsky 1970 as our starting point, but put aside true (deverbal) nominalizations and focus rather on questions about what Chomsky calls the `base-structures’ for nominals. We’ll look at cases of apparent complements and subjects of Ns and attempt to tease out whether these are licensed in analogous ways to the complements and subjects of verbs.

	Chomsky, N (1970) Remarks on Nominalization, in R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum Readings in English Transformational Grammar, Waltham, Mass.: Ginn and Co. 184-221.
	Cinque, Guglielmo. 2000. On Greenbergs universal 20 and the Semiti DP. University of Venice Working Papers in Linguistics 10:45–61.
	Cinque, Guglielmo. 2006. Complement and adverbial PPs: Implications for clause structure. In Guglielmo Cinque, ed., Restructuring and Functional Heads, volume 4 of The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, 145–166, New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
	Kayne, Richard S. 2004. Prepositions as probes. In Adriana Belletti, ed., Structures and Beyond, 192–212, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
	Kayne, Richard 2008 Antisymmetry and the Lexicon, lingBuzz/000598
	Boneh, Nora and Sichel, Ivy 2008, Deconstructing Possession. Ms
	Freeze, Ray. 1992. Existentials and other locatives. Language 68:553–595.
	Kayne, Richard S. 1993. Toward a modular theory of auxiliary selection. Studia Linguistica 47:3–31.
	Larson, Richard and Sungeun Cho. 2003 Temporal Adjectives and the Structure of Possessive DPs. Natural Language Semantics 11: 217-247.
	Szabolcsi, Anna. 1994. The noun phrase. In Franz Kiefer and Katalin Kiss, eds., The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian, 179–274, San Diego: Academic Press.
	Adger, David and Ramchand, Gillian. 2003. Predication and equation. Linguistic Inquiry 34:325–359.
	Bowers, John. 1993. The syntax of predication. Linguistic Inquiry 24:591–656.
	Williams, Edwin, 1983, Syntactic vs Semantic Categories, Linguistics and Philosophy 6 423-446.

Presupposition and Local Context

Schlenker

I. Standard Readings

[Most papers available for download from here, for password write to the secretary]

	Stalnaker, Robert: 1974, Pragmatic Presuppositions. In Munitz, M. and Unger, P. (eds.) Semantics and Philosophy. New York: New York University Press. Reprinted in Davis 1991.
	Heim, Irene: 1983, On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions. In D. Flickinger et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 114-125. Reprinted in Davis 1991.
	Chemla, Emmanuel: 2009, Presuppositions of quantified sentences: experimental data. Natural Language Semantics, doi:10.1007/s11050-009-9043-9, in press.
	Schlenker, Philippe: 2009, Presuppositions and Local Contexts. To appear, MITWPL (this is a much shorter and less formal version than Schlenker, to appear a, below).

II. Advanced Readings

Schlenker, Philippe: to appear a, Local Contexts. To appear in Semantics & Pragmatics.

Schlenker, Philippe: to appear b, Presupposition Projection: the New Debate. Final version to appear in the Proceedings of SALT.

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Additional reading available online

Geurts, B.: 1999, Presupposition and Pronouns. Elsevier. Some chapters are available online [link given on the website]
Chapter one: Presupposition
Chapter two: The binding theory
Chapter four: Dynamic semantics
Chapter six: Modals

Heim, I.: 1990, Presupposition Projection. In R. van der Sandt (ed.) "Presupposition, Lexical Meaning and Discourse Processes: Workshop Reader," University of Nijmegen, 1990. Available on Semantics Archive.

Morphology/ Syntax Interface

Borer

	Compounds: the View from Hebrew -- Borer
	The VP within Process Nominals: Evidence from Adverbs and the VP Anaphor Do-So -- Borer et al
	Exo-skeletal vs. Endo-skeletal Explanations: Syntactic Projections and the Lexicon -- Borer
	Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection -- Halle & Marantz
	Derivational Morphology in the Syntax: Productivity Issues Reconstruction the Lexical Domain with a Single Generative Engine -- Marantz
	Remarks on Denominal Verbs -- Kiparsky
	Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface -- Embick and Noyer
	Compounding in Distributed Morphology -- Harley
	Are there really two different classes of instrumental denominal verbs in English? -- Harley and Haugen
	LOCALITY CONSTRAINTS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF ROOTS: THE CASE OF HEBREW DENOMINAL VERBS -- Arad
	The Possessor that Stayed Close to Home -- Munn
	The Roots of Nominality, the Nominality of Roots -- Acquaviva

Cinque

Title of course: "The syntax of adjectival and relative clause modification":

readings:
Guglielmo Cinque The Syntax of Adjectives. A Comparative Study. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, forthcoming [ask author or Secretary, FOSSSIL for files]

Guglielmo Cinque (2003/2008) "The prenominal origin of relative clauses" (abstract) (downloadable from:
http://dspace-unive.cilea.it/handle/10278/211)

Guglielmo Cinque “More on the indefinite character of the Head of restrictive relatives”. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 Incontro di Grammatica Generativa.Rivista di grammatica generativa 33(downloadable from http://dspace-unive.cilea.it/handle/10278/880)

Guglielmo Cinque “Two Types of Nonrestrictive Relatives”, in O.Bonami and P.Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 7. Paris (2008), pp. 99–137. (downloadable from http://dspace-unive.cilea.it/handle/10278/1046)

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