| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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| 1-2 | Covert movement and logical form |
Johnson, Kyle, and Satoshi Tomioka. "Lowering and Mid-size Clauses." Proceedings of the Tübingen Workshop on Reconstruction, Tübingen, Germany, 1997. Optional
Reinhart, Tanya. "Wh-in-situ in the Framework of the Minimalist Program." Natural Language Semantics 6, no. 1 (1998): 29-56. Nissenbaum, Jon. "Investigations of Covert Phrase Movement." Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. Appendix of chapter 2. |
| 3-4 | Reconstruction and logical form |
Optional Lechner, Winfried. "Two Kinds of Reconstruction." Studia Linguistica 52, no. 3 (1998): 276-310. Sportiche, Dominique. "Reconstruction, Binding and Scope." Unpublished manuscript, University of California Los Angeles, 2003. Aoun, Joseph, and Abbas Benmamoun. "Minimality, Reconstruction, and PF Movement." Linguistic Inquiry 29, no. 4 (1998): 569-597. |
| 5 | Wh-movement: Islands, barriers and successive-cyclicity |  Chomsky, Noam. "On Wh-Movement." In Formal Syntax. Edited by Peter W. Culicover, Thomas Wasow, and Adrian Akmajian. New York: Academic Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780121992408. |
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| 8-9 | Superiority, probes and goals |
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| 10-11 | Remnant movement, derivations, probes and goals | Müller, Gereon. "A Constraint on Remnant Movement." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14 (1996): 355-407. Kitahara, Hisatsugu. "Restricting Ambiguous Rule-Application: A Unified Analysis of Movement." In MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #24. Edited by Masatoshi Koizumi and Hiroyuki Ura. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994. |
| 12-13 | Weak islands and relativized minimality |
Starke, Michal. "Move Dissolves into Merge: a Theory of Locality." Doctoral dissertation, Université de Genève, 2001. |
| 14 | Phases, barriers, and spell-out |
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| 15-16 | Fox, Danny, and David Pesetsky. "Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure." Theoretical Linguistics 31, nos. 1-2 (2005): 1-46. Optional Holmberg, Anders. "Remarks on Holmberg's Generalization." Studia Linguistica 53 (1999): 1-39. Ko, Heejeong. "Asymmetries in Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization." Linguistic Inquiry 28 (2007). (PDF)# | |
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| 18-19 | Wh-movement: Pied-piping | Heck, Fabian. "A Theory of Pied-Piping." Doctoral dissertation, University of Tuebingen, 2004. Cable, Seth. "Q-Particles and the Nature of Wh -Fronting." Manuscript, 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 20 | A vs. A-bar movement and scrambling | Mahajan, Anoop K. Chapters 1-2 in "The A/A-bar Distinction and Theory." Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990, pp. 7-106. |
| 21-22 | Miyagawa, Shigeru. "A-movement Scrambling and Options without Optionality." In Word Order and Scrambling. Edited by Simin Karimi. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 177-200. | |
| 23-24 | Gapping | Johnson, Kyle. "Gapping Isn't (VP) Ellipsis." Unpublished manuscript, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006. Lin, Vivian. "Determiner Sharing." In Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Edited by R. Billerey and B. D. Lillehaugen. 2000. |
| 25-26 | Parasitic gaps | Nissenbaum, Jon. "Investigations of Covert Phrase Movement." Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. |
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