Specific topics to be covered include (in roughly the order of discussion):
Introduction
3.30 anaphora, ellipsis and "the architecture of the language faculty"
Configurational constraints on anaphoric relations
4.1 Linear order, heirarchical structure, and the "command" relation [Langacker 1969]
4.6 Disjoint reference and the "kommand" relation [Lasnik 1976]
4.8 "C-command" at last! [Reinhart 1981]
Binding Theory and syntactic indexing (part 1)
4.13 The Knowledge of Language binding theory [Chomsky 1986]
4.15 Coindexing = coreference [Fiengo & May 1994 ch. 1]
Binding Theory and syntactic indexing (part 2)
4.20 Coindexing = binding; coreference = pragmatics [Reinhart 1983; Reinhart 1997, Heim 1992]
4.22 The "Reflexivity" binding theory [Reinhart & Reuland]
4.27 Reflexivity cont'd [R&R; Grodzinsky and Reinhart 1993]
A typology of anaphora
4.29 Deep and surface anaphora [Hankamer & Sag 1976; Sag and Hankamer 1984]
Verb phrase ellipsis
5.4 What gets elided, and when? [Johnson 1997; Sag 1976, Webber 1978, Kennedy 1997b]
5.6 Argument-contained ellipsis [tbd]
Ellipsis and Logical Form
5.11 Logical Form and logical form [May 1991; McCawley 1968]
5.13 Antecedent-contained deletion and LF [Kennedy 1997a; Hornstein 1994]
5.18 Sluicing [Chung, Ladusaw, and McCloskey 1995]
Reconstruction effects, Binding Theory, Logical Form
5.20 Anti-reconstruction effects [Lebeaux 1991; Heycock 1995]
5.25 Reconstruction effects [Fox 1997 or Safir 1998]
Wrap-up
5.27 the architecture of the language faculty revisited
Workshop on anaphora, ellipsis, and Logical Form
6.1 student presentations
6.3 student presentations
Chomsky, N. 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding. The Hague: Mouton. (optional).
Chomksy, N. 1986. Knowledge of Language. New York: Praeger. Chapter 3. pp. 160-204.
Chung, S., W. Ladusaw, and J. McCloskey. 1995. Sluicing and Logical Form. Natural Language Semantics 3:239-282.
Fiengo, R. and R. May. 1994. Indices and Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press. Chapter 1.
Fox, D. 1997. Reconstruction, binding theory, and the interpretation of chains. Ms., MIT. (To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.)
Heycock, C. 1995. Asymmetries in reconstruction. Linguistic Inquiry 26.4:547-570.
Hankamer, J. and I. Sag. 1976. Deep and surface anaphora. Linguistic Inquiry 7.3:391-428.
Heim, I. 1992. Anaphora and semantic interpretation: A reinterpretation of Reinhart's approach. Ms., MIT.
Hornstein, N. 1994. An argument for minimalism: The case of antecedent-contained deletion. Linguistic Inquiry 25.3:455-480.
Johnson, K. 1997. What VP-ellipsis can do, and what it can't, but not why. Ms., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Kennedy, C. 1997a. Antecedent-contained deletion and the syntax of quantification. Linguistic Inquiry 28.4:662-688.
Kennedy, C. 1997b. VP-deletion and "nonparasitic" gaps. Linguistic Inquiry 28.4:697-707.
Langacker, R. 1969. On prononminalization and the chain of control.
Lasnik, H. 1976. Remarks on coreference. Linguistic Analysis 2.1:1-22.
Lebeaux, D. 1991. Relative clauses, licensing, and the nature of the derivation. Syntax and Semantics 25: Perspectives on Phrase Structure. Academic Press: New York. 209-239.
May, R. 1991. Syntax, semantics, and Logical Form. In Kasher, A. (ed.), The Chomskyan Turn. Oxford: Blackwell.
McCawley, J. 1968. Where do noun phrases come from? In Jacobs, R. and P. Rosenbaum (eds.). 1970. Readings in English Transformational Grammar. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
Reinhart, T. 1981. Definite NP anaphora and c-command domains. Linguistic Inquiry 12.4:605-635.
Reinhart, T. 1983. Coreference and bound anaphora: A restatement of the anaphora questions. Linguistics and Philosophy 6:47-88.
Reinhart, T. 1997. Strategies for anaphora resolution. UiL OTS working paper uil-ots-97-006/TL-CL.
Reinhart, T. and E. Reuland. 1993. Reflexivity. Linguistic Inquiry 24.4:657-720.
Safir, K. 1998. Reconstruction and bound anaphora: Copy theory without deletion at LF. Ms., Rutgers University.
Sag, I. 1976. A logical theory of VP-deletion. Proceedings of the Nth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. University of Chicago.
Sag, I. and J. Hankamer. 1984. Toward a theory of anaphoric processing. Linguistics and Philosophy 7:325-345.
Webber, B. 1978. A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University.
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