Recitation information

When: Fridays,10:00am* to 10:50am EST
Where: Zoom [find link on Canvas]

*NB: unless otherwise stated, the plan is to start at 10 and not at 10:05.

Office hours

Mondays, 2pm–3pm [https://mit.zoom.us/j/97912051335].
Also by appointment: please send an e-mail to sznfong@mit.edu.

Recitation schedule and topics

November 13: Agree and agreement (Preminger 2014)
November 6: Ergative case
- Ergative as inherent case assigned by v.
- Ergative as upwards dependent case.
- Ergative in Koryak (Abramovitz 2020)
October 30: Oct 23, continued + case in Finnish
October 23: Dependent case, the relationship between case and agreement
- Brief overview of a dependent case theory of case assignment
- Bobaljik (2008)
October 16: Raising vs. Control
- Distinguishing between raising vs. control based on:
  - Idioms
  - Expletive subject
  - Thematic restrictions
  - Reconstruction
October 9: Head movement (Participle fronting in Bulgarian), continued
October 2: Head movement
- Movement in LGB and in the Minimalist Program
- Theoretical issues raised by head movement (esp. Extension Condition)
- Participle fronting in Bulgarian (Harizanov 2019)
September 25: Sept 18 continued.
September 18: Sept 11 continued & hyperraising
- Continuation of recitation #1.
- Hyperraising: what it is and the questions it raises
  - Successive cyclic movement through Spec-CP
  - Ban on Improper Movement
  - Hyperraising vs. Wh-movement
September 11: Interrogative sentences in English vs. Mongolian.
- Recap: domination intervention vs. c-command intervention.
- Recap: Condition C effect as a diagnostic for movement.
- Weak crossover: description & how it can be used as a diagnostic for movement.
- Interrogative sentences in Mongolian and how they compare to interrogative sentences in English.
- An analysis for both the similarities and differences between them.