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Professor D S p o r t
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Department of Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90095-1543
Email: s po r t i c h @ u c l a
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Research Interests
Linguistic Theory, Syntactic
Theory, Romance Syntax, French Syntax.
Some Current Material
Overview of some of the papers
Movement Agreement and Case aboutmac.pdf
French predicate clitics and clause structure & Subject clitics in French
and Romance aboutclitics.pdf
Hand outs
- lsrl94.pdf
: This is the hand out of a talk given at the LSRL94 conference
(Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics) ( it was also presented at
Cornell in 93): the basic idea is that there is no adjuncts or adjunction
in syntax, only subjects and complements. It examines several different
cases of putative adjunction, e.g. adverbs ( argues to be predicates of
events, etc..), adjectives (ditto..), successive cyclic adjunction a la
Barriers ( clausal structure has many more COMP positions than previously
believed - based on agreement phenomena found in Kilega)...
- I gave a number of talks
between 1996 and the present on reconstruction under A-movement. These
talks have not yet made it to article form. Here is a description of the
general ideas: SplitDPsSplitVPs.pdf
- And here are a couple of representative
handouts and an abstract which people request from time to time:
mittalk97.pdf , glow99abs.pdf
, glow99ho.pdf
- This the handout of a talk
given at MIT in 1998 presenting material taught at UCLA around 96-97. It
builds on the previous but the basic idea that there is no process of head
movement at all is explored a bit further: mittalk98.pdf
Downloadable Manuscripts or Articles To
Appear
Most of these things are now published usually in minimally revised form
- (1990) Movement, Case and
Agreement, ms., UCLA, 201 pages ( mac.pdf
) appeared in D. Sportiche (1998)
- (1992) "Clitic
Constructions", to appear in Phrase Structure and the Lexicon, L.
Zaring and J. Rooryck, eds. (Bloomington, Indiana: IULC).(
clitic1.pdf )
- (1993) Sketch of a
Reductionist Approach to Syntactic Variation and Dependencies, to appear
in Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory: Essays in Honor of
Carlos Otero , H. Campos and P. Kempchinsky, eds., (Dordrecht:
Kluwer). ( reduc.pdf
)
- (1995) Pronominal clitic
dependencies. To appear in Henk van Riemsdijk, ed., Language typology:
Clitics in the European Languages (Berlin: Mouten de Gruyter) (
clitic2.pdf )
- (1995) French predicate
clitics and clause structure. To appear in Syntax and Semantics,
vol. 28, Anna Cardinaletti and Maria Teresa Guasti, eds. (NY: Academic
Press) (
clause.pdf )
- (1995) Subject clitics in
French and Romance: Complex inversion and clitic doubling. To appear in Studies
in Comparative Romance Syntax, Kyle Johnson and Ian Roberts, eds.
(Dordrecht: Kluwer) (
subclit.pdf )
- (2003) Reconstruction,
Binding and Scope, ms. UCLA ( rbs.pdf
)
- (2003) An introduction to
Syntactic Analysis and Theory, in collaboration with Hilda Koopman and
Edward Stabler, ms. UCLA ( isat.pdf
).
- (2005) Division of Labor
between Merge and Move: Strict Locality of Selection and Apparent
Reconstruction Paradoxes, in Proceedings of the Workshop Divisions of
Linguistic Labor, The La Bretesche Workshop (Sportiche_05_Division-of-.pdf)
- (2005) "Cyclic NP Structure
and the Interpretation of Traces" in Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver,
Jan Koster, Riny Huybregts and Ursula Kleinhenz (eds.), Organizing
Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk, Berlin/New
York, Mouton de Gruyter.
- (2006) NP Movement:
How
to Merge and Move in Tough-Constructions (Tough-constructions.pdf)
Recent Publications
- (1988) "A Theory of
Floating Quantifiers and its Corollaries for Constituent Structure"
in Linguistic Inquiry 19.2, 425-451.
- (1989) with H. Koopman
"Pronouns, Logical Variables and Logophoricity in Abe", in
Linguistic Inquiry 20.4, 555-589.
- (1989) "Le Mouvement
Syntaxique: Constraintes et Parametres", in Langages 95, p. 35-80.
- (1991) with H. Koopman
"The Position of Subjects", in Lingua 85.2/3, The Syntax of VSO
Languages, J. Mc Closkey, ed., 211-259
- (1994) with J. Aoun and E.
Benmamoun "Agreement, Word Order and Conjunction in Several Varieties
of Arabic", Linguistic Inquiry 25.2, 195-221.
- (1995) "Clitic
Constructions", Phrase Structure and the Lexicon, L. Zaring and J.
Rooryck, 213-276, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht .
- (1995) "French Predicate
le and Clausal Structure", in Small Clauses, A. Cardinaletti
and M.T. Guasti, eds., Syntax and Semantics, volume 28, Academic Press,
NY.
- (1995) “Sketch of a
Reductionist Approach to Syntactic Variation and Dependencies “, in
Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory, H. Campos and P.
Kempchinsky, eds., 356 - 398, Georgetown University Press
- (1997) “Subject Clitics in
French and Romance, Complex Inversion and Clitic Doubling”, in Studies in
Comparative Syntax, Kyle Johnson and Ian Roberts, eds., Kluwer Dordrecht,
The Netherlands.
- (1998) “Pronominal Clitic
Dependencies”, in Language Typology: Clitics in the European Languages,
Henk van Riemsdijk, ed., Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin..
- (1998) Partitions and Atoms
of Clause Structure, Routledge, London.
Regularly Taught Courses
- Undergraduate:
- Graduate
- Graduate Introduction
to Syntax I (
Ling. 200B ), II (
Ling. 206 ) or III (
Ling. 216 ),
- Advanced Courses:
Comparative Romance Syntax (RLL 211)
- Advanced Courses:
Topics in Romance Syntax (RLL 255)
- Syntax Seminars on
Current Topics (Ling 252)
- Syntax and Semantics
(Ling 262): a discussion group meeting weekly usually on Fridays 2-4pm.

Last updated: sept 29, 2003
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