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The Grammar of Spanish

• Syllabus.
  
  
• Week 1:
  • Handout I: Theoretical refresher
  • Handout II: Argument structure alternations.
  • Reading: no reading.
    
    
• Week 2:
  • Handout: Passives and impersonals.
  • Reading: Juarros, Eva. 2001. The syntactic operator se in Spanish. Generals paper, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    
    
• Week 3:
  • Handout: Double object and applicative constructions.
  • Reading: Cuervo, María Cristina. 2003. Datives at large. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
    
    
• Week 4:
  • Handout: The Person/Case Constraint.
  • Reading: Bonet, Eulalia. 1991. Morphology after syntax: pronominal clitics in Romance. Doctoral dissertation, MIT.
    
    
• Week 5:
  • Handout: Pronominal clitics.
  • Reading: Franco, Jon. 2000. Agreement as a continuum: the case of Spanish pronominal clitics. In Beukema et al (eds.) Clitic phenomena in European languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 147-190.
    
    
• Week 6:
  • Handout: Variation in the position of subjects.
  • Reading: Ordóñez, Francisco. 1997. Word order and clause structure in Spanish and other Romance languages. PhD dissertation, City University of New York.
    
    
• Week 7:
  • No class (Pfingsmontag).
  • No reading
    
    
• Week 8:
  • Handout: The status of preverbal subjects.
  • Reading: Ordóñez, Francisco, and Estela Treviño. 1999. Left dislocated subjects and the pro-drop parameter: a case study of Spanish. Lingua 107:39-68.
    
    
• Week 9:
  • Handout: Subject inversion under A-bar movement.
  • Reading: Torrego, Esther. 1984. On inversion in Spanish and some of its effects. Linguistic Inquiry 15:102-129.
    
    
• Week 10:
  • Handout: Dialectal variation in subject inversion in wh- questions.
  • Reading: Bakovic, Eric. 1995. A markedness subhierarchy in syntax: inversion and optimality in Spanish. Rutgers Optimality Archive (published in Is the best good enough? (1998), ed. Barbosa et al, MIT Press).
    
    
• Week 11:
  • Handout: Negation and coordination.
  • Reading: Vicente, Luis. to appear. On the syntax of adversative coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
    
    
• Week 12:
  • Handout: Types of ellipsis.
  • Reading: Depiante, Marcela. 2000. The syntax of deep and surface anaphora: a study of null complement anaphora and stripping/bare argument ellipsis. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
    
    
• Week 13:
  • Student presentations (I).
  • No reading:
    
    
• Week 14:
  • Student presentations (II).
  • No reading