The syllabus of my graduate course in the fall of 2004 contains the following.

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　　It has always been a concern and almost an obsession for (many if not most) researchers in the generative tradition working on Japanese to be able to find evidence for overt syntactic movement in Japanese. It would not be very difficult to speculate on the reasons for this. After all, the most interesting and exciting aspects of generative grammar have been built around phenomena of syntactic movement (sometime called displacement)—i.e., linguistic intuitions that a linguistic object appears in a position other than its 'canonical position'—mostly in English in the early stages of generative grammar and in other languages as well in more recent years.
　　What counts as evidence for the existence of overt syntactic movement in particular (and for any syntactic claim in general for that matter), however, is not an easy question to answer. Scrambling has been discussed extensively for the past 20 years in the context of the above concerns. It has often been argued that the movement involved in the so-called scrambling construction in Japanese may correspond either to what is involved in wh-questions in English (so-called A'-movement) or to what is involved in the passive and the raising-to-subject constructions in English (so-called A-movement). In this course, we will read and discuss works on constructions in Japanese and Korean that have been discussed in connection with the passive and so-called the raising-to-object (or ECM or the major object) constructions. We will be specifically concerned with what counts as evidence for a particular syntactic claim or a proposed generalization, and how it can be tested.
　　The requirements for the course for those who are taking it for a letter grade are given in (1).

(1)　a.　Active participation in the class discussion.
　　b.　Active participation in the web discussion, including timely response to questions that are specifically mentioned as 'obligatory'.
　　c.　A term paper.

The format of the term paper will be specified during the course of the semester, reflecting the way we analyze the papers we read. For each paper we read, you should answer the questions in (2), (3) and (6), and try to answer the questions in (4) and (5). We will generate an evaluation sheet which we can use to record our evaluation of each paper, with respect to the points below and additional points to be introduced later.

(2)　Main claims
　　What are the main claims of the paper?
(3)　Empirical generalizations
　　a.　What empirical generalizations are put forth or adopted in the paper?
　　b.　What is your assessment of them if you are in a position to evaluate them yourself?
(4)　Empirical Predictions
　　a.　What empirical predictions are made?
　　b.　How can they be tested, i.e., what syntactic experiments can be conducted to test the predictions, if they are indeed testable?
　　c.　What are the results of the experiments?
(5)　Argumentation and demonstration of the points
　　Is the argumentation in the paper solid?
(6)　Citation
　　Does the paper cite the relevant literature properly and accurately?
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