Calendar

Lec # TOPICS kEY DATES
1 Nature of Optional Movement
2 Nature of Optional Movement (cont.)
3 The EPP, Agreement and Focus I
4 The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to Bantu
5 The EPP, Agreement and Focus III: Questioning (Certain) parametric variations: wh-movement vs. wh-in-situ, agreement vs. nonagreement
6 EPP, Syntactic Locality, and Floated Quantifiers
7 Scrambling and QR: QR is Scrambling
8 Weak Islands, Intervention Effect
9 A-chain in Acquisition
10 Agreement, Case, and Verbal Morphology: ga/no Conversion and Related Issues
11 Noun Phrase Ellipsis Final presentations
12 Noun Phrase Ellipsis (cont.)

DP Structure
Final presentations
13 Make-up Class: -Wa, -Ga Final presentations and final paper due