This course will critically examine recent scholarship on the syntax and semantics of object movement in order to prepare students to write an original research paper. We will consider questions such as the following:

• What type of movement (A-movement, A-bar movement, or a third type) does object movement instantiate?
• Which functional categories are involved in object movement?
• Is there a distinction between Object Shift and Scrambling?
• Does "scrambling" represent a cross-linguistically unified phenomenon?
• What constraints is object movement subject to?
• Is object movement semantically motivated or semantically vacuous?
• How do rules of prosody interact with object movement?

We will consider data from a range of languages, including Germanic languages, Romance languages, Hindi, Turkish, Japanese, and Korean, among others.

Approximately the first three fourths of the semester will be devoted to class discussions of scholarly articles and book chapters by linguists such as eljko Bokovi & Daiko Takahashi, Chris Collins & Hvskuldur Thrainsson, Molly Diesing, Kyle Johnson, Richard Kayne, Masatoshi Koizumi, Anoop Mahajan, Shigeru Miyagawa, Gereon M|ller, Mamoru Saito, Wolfgang Sternefeld & Joachim Sabel, Yuji Takano, Sten Vikner, and Jan-Wouter Zwart. Each student will be responsible for presenting and leading the discussion on one article or book chapter. There will be an "Almost Final" exam. The remainder of the semester will be devoted to exposis, in which students will present their course papers in progress.

This course assumes some background in syntactic theory, such as L543, G551, G540, or the equivalent. (Note: The course does NOT assum knowledge of German.)

• course packet
• additional materials on reserve in BH643
• instructor-generated handouts

• Class participation, including presentation and exposition (25%)
• Almost Final exam (25%)
• Course paper (50%)