Week 7 [2024-05-15 Wed]

We discussed the Sauerland and Alexiadou paper.

Next time we will discuss islands. There are four papers to read. Please skim all of them, but choose at least one to read carefully.

Reading
  1. Hofmeister, Casasanto, and Sag (2013) Islands in the Grammar?
  2. Cuneo and Goldberg (2023) The discourse functions of grammatical constructions explain an enduring syntactic puzzle
  3. Momma and Dillon (2023) Discourse factors do not explain islands
  4. Cuneo and Goldberg (2024) Addressing a challenge to the Backgroundedness account of islands