Undergrad syntax course materials

Tom Wasow's class on syntax was "an introduction to the basic concepts of modern syntactic theory through the development of a rigorous grammar of a substantial fragment of English."

In particular, the class introduces the HPSG syntactic framework (Head-driven Phrase Structure). The textbook is the very readable Bender, Sag, and Wasow (2003), Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (recommendation: use the second edition).

  • First thoughts (pdf)
  • Refresher on features (pdf)
  • Adding in semantics (pdf)
  • Binding (pdf)
  • Chapter 9 and beyond (pdf)
  • Questions about the final (pdf)
  • Advice for the final (pdf)

If you'd like graduate-level stuff on syntax, check out this page.

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