Class Notes

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1. Class #1: Principles and Parameters - the Null Subject Parameter
2. Reading Guide #1
3. Class #2: Principles and Parameters - Subjacency
4. Class #3: Motivations for 'invisible' movement (LF movement) [answer to question from Class #2]
5. Class #4: Head Movement
6. Class #5: Locality in Head Movement
7. Class #6: Verb Movement and Functional Heads
8. Class #7: Theoretical Approaches to Head Movement
9. Class #8: Domains for Binding and Movement
10. Class #9: What is Minimal about the Minimalist Program?
11. Class #10: Non-Complementarity of Anaphors and Pronouns
12. Class #11: no new handout for this class
13. Class #12: Long Distance Binding - Anaphors and Logophors
14. Class #13: Binding Theory - Predicates and Bound Variables
15. Class #14: Different Kinds of Reflexive Interpretations
16. Class #15: Complement/Non-complement Asymmetries in Wh-Movement
17. Class #16: no new handout for this class
18. Class #17: no new handout for this class
19. Class #18: Subjacency and the Empty Category Principle
20. Class #19: Complements, Connectedness, L-Marking
21. Class #20: (Pseudo-)Barriers
22. Class #20b: Real Barriers
23. Class #22: Intervention Effects and Weak Islands