• syntactic filters
• readings
  • Graf and Kobele

• regularity of derivations

• constraints on movement
  • SMC
  • SpIC
• readings
  • Gärtner and Michaelis

• morphological agreement over syntactic dependencies
• Some
  • notes
    • agreement
    • lexical decomposition (notes relevant to head movement)
  • readings
    • Marina Ermolaeva

• 'optionality' in movement

Some readings:

• Gärtner & Michaelis
• Grewendorf

Developing and comparing two analysis of German clause structure

1. C-[V-T]

   C is head medial, V and T head final

2. C-T-V

   C,T, and V are head medial

No class, Pfingstmontag

• Covert movement
• Pronunciation strategies for movement chains
  • pronounce highest (= only overt movement)
  • pronounce highest 'strong' (= interleave overt and covert movements)

• Generalized head movement

  	Only Suffixation	Only Upwards	Only from Comp
  Normal HM	+	+	+
  Mirror Theory	+	-	+
  Spanning	-	-	-

• Example of German verbs

• Talked about head movement
• Looked at example of English auxiliary system

Readings:

• Greg Kobele (2006) Generating Copies (chapter two)

• Talked in more detail about representations

  	Projection	Linearly Ordered	Spellout Position
  Trees w/ traces	+	+	+
  Multiple dominance	+	+	-
  Derivations	+	-	-
  Set-theoretic	-	-	-

• Information about spellout-position, linear order, and projection is (or can be) encoded in lexical feature bundles

• Discussed a purely phrasal movement based analysis of simple intransitive and transitive sentences in English.
• Discussed the formal language \(a^{n}b^{n}c^{n}\)
• Briefly compared three perspectives on derived structure
  1. (ordered) trees with traces
     • linear order
     • spellout position of moved expressions
  2. (ordered) multiple dominance structures
     • linear order
  3. unordered multiple dominance structures

Readings:

• Anoop Mahajan (2003) Word Order and (Remnant) VP Movement (DOI)
• Richard Kayne (1998) Overt vs Covert Movements (DOI)

• introduced a first-pass attempt at formalising minimalism.
• the basic system is presented here. Note that this is presented using multi-dominance, not trees (as we did in class). We will talk about this difference next time.