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Argument Structure Seminar, Spring 2005

Date Topic Link to summary Link to handout or paper
May 19      
May 13 Case in Urdu (Miriam Butt)   Differential Case Marking Theory
May 11-12 Complex Predicates in Urdu (Miriam Butt)   Complex Predicate Compendium
May 10 Icelandic Passives, Cont'd The Icelandic Middle vs. the Adjectival Passive The Nanosyntax of the Icelandic Passive (handout)
May 3 Icelandic Passives Dual-cylinder licensing Icelandic Passives (paper)
April 29 Idioms and Passives Hoist by my own petard Handout from Poznan talk
April 19 Idioms and Banyan trees   Seminar notes
April 5 Passives and Statives   Dubinsky & Simango 1996
March 22      
March 15 Pesetsky visit Announcement The Syntax of Features and its Consequences
March 8 Verb meanings as idioms Verbs are little bundles of stuff that is low in the fseq Seminar notes (very rough)
March 1 Two Domains of Causatives The nature of the list Handout
February 15 Michal on Kitharaka, Gillian on Hindi/Urdu Kitharaka is backwards, and Hindi/Urdu is very low  
February 8 Patrycja on Amharic, also faire-par and faire-infinitive Amharic uses nominalization  
February 1 What we think we know about inner and outer causatives Cross-linguistic patterns Handout
January 25 First meeting; planning    

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