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Professor D S p o r t i c h eDepartment of Linguistics |
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:
- Introductory Syntax ( Ling. 120B )
- Introduction to French Syntax. ( Ling. 128A and Ling. 128B crosslisted as RLL 204A and 204B)
- Advanced Syntax ( Ling. 165B )
- 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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