| 1 | The Hierarchical Organization of Language | |
| 2 | More on Building Syntactic Trees; Plus Locality Considerations; Theta-Roles | |
| 3 | More on Theta-Roles; Case; Basics of Binding Theory | |
| 4 | Binding Theory; Syntactic Movement; Embedded vs. Matrix Questions and Wh-movement | |
| 5 | Islands and Movement | |
| 6 | Verb Movement | |
| 7 | Verbs, Tense and Agreement | |
| 8 | A-Movement | |
| 9 | More on Movement | |
| 10 | The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH) | |
| 11 | Empirical Arguments for PRO | |
| 12 | Obligatory and Non-obligatory Control | |
| 13 | Pro versus PRO | |
| 14 | Covert Movement | |
| 15 | Tense and Aspect | Paper due three days after Session 15 |
| 16 | Polysynthesis | |
| 17 | Conditionals | |
| 18 | Gerunds | Paper revision due one day after Session 18 |
| 19 | Free Relatives | |
| 20 | Review | Final exam four days after Session 20 |