Syllabus PDF (but always see Schedule below for the latest)
Readings and weekly reading questions will be posted on MyCourses
| Week | Day | Topic | Readings (Required) | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5/1 | Introduction: What is ellipsis? | |||
| 2 | 12/1 | Licensing ellipsis | Hankamer and Sag (1976), Merchant (2012) p. 1–20 | ||
| 3 | 19/1 | Sluicing | Ross (1969), Chung et al. (1995), Merchant (2001, §2) | ||
| 4 | 26/1 | VP-ellipsis and Antecedent Contained Deletion | Johnson (2001), Kennedy (1997), Sailor and Thoms (2013) | ||
| 5 | 2/2 | Pseudogapping | Lasnik (1999), Merchant (2008a) | ||
| 6 | 9/2 | Gapping | Johnson (2009), Coppock (2001) | ||
| 7 | 16/2 | Strict & sloppy identity in VP-ellipsis | Heim and Kratzer (1998) ch.9, Hestvik (1995) p. 211–223 | ||
| 8 | 23/2 | Voice mismatches in ellipsis | Merchant (2013), Merchant (2001, §1), Williams (1977), Thoms (2013) | ||
| 9 | 2/3 | No class: Study break | |||
| 10 | 9/3 | Island repairs under sluicing | Merchant (2008b), Fox and Lasnik (2003), Fox and Pesetsky (2005) | ||
| 11 | 16/3 | Against island repairs | Barros et al. (To appear), Barros (2012) | Paper sketch due | |
| 12 | 23/3 | Parsing of ellipsis | Xiang et al. (2014), Frazier and Clifton (2001) | ||
| 13 | 30/3 | No class: Hadas is out of town | Arregui et al. (2006), Hackl et al. (2012) | ||
| 14 | 6/4 | No class: Easter Monday | Rooth (1992); Rooth (1996), Kadmon (2001) | ||
| 15 | 13/4 | Student presentations! | Shimoyama (2006) | Final paper due |