Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS
1 HPSG 1: How it works (PDF)
2 HPSG 2: Infinitival complementation/a-bar dependencies (PDF)
3 LFG: Basics (PDF)
4 LFG 2: The overall system, modern developments
5 Student presentation festival: HPSG and LFG papers
6 Non-derivational principles and parameters/minimalist grammars (PDF)
7 History of analyses of the English auxiliary verb system: Derivations to representations (PDF)
8 Standard theory to generative semantics (PDF)
9 Conditions (PDF)
10 Student presentation festival: Generative semantics/interpretive semantics/conditions papers
11 The legacy of conditions: LFG, GPSG, and GB (PDF)
12 Simpler syntax?