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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