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Head movement Oct. 3, 2012 – Day 15

Head movement Oct. 3, 2012 – Day 15. Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University. Course management. http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ We need to spend our $150 from the Provost ’ s Undergraduate Activities Fund. HEAD MOVEMENT. Radford §4.

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Head movement Oct. 3, 2012 – Day 15

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  1. Head movementOct. 3, 2012 – Day 15 Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University

  2. Course management • http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ • We need to spend our $150 from the Provost’s Undergraduate Activities Fund. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  3. HEAD MOVEMENT ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Radford §4

  4. §4.2 T-TO-C MOVEMENT • My version of (1) • A: What did you ask? • B: Whether you will marry me. • A: What? • B: Will you marry me? • Do you like Radford’s sentence? • A: What did you ask? • B: If you will marry me. • Interim summary: a question can be introduced by an interrogative complementizer or an inverted auxiliary. • But not both: • A: What did you ask? • B: Whether will you marry me? ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane *

  5. WHETHER VS. T-TO-C MOVEMENT, 1ST TRY CP TP C whether PRN you T’ CP VP T will TP C will V marry PRN me PRN you T’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane VP T will ----- V marry PRN me

  6. WHY MOVE? • Head position strength and attractiveness • An interrogative C is strong and so must be filled by an overt word, either a complementizer (subordinating conjunction) or an auxiliary verb. • A null complementizer attracts an auxiliary verb to a strong C. • Perhaps C carries a tense feature [TNS ø] which must be realized on an tensed verb, which is to say that [TNS ø] is an affix. • So the tensed auxiliary verb moves up and adjoins to C, causing the deletion of itself in T and the merger and deletion of [TNS ø] in C – see the following slide. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  7. T-TO-C MOVEMENT AS ADJUNCTION OF T TO TENSE IN C CP TP C [TNS] ø PRN you T’ CP VP T will TP C T will C [TNS] ø V marry PRN me PRN you T’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane VP T will V marry PRN me

  8. A SIMPLIFICATION OF THE ADJUNCTION TO SHOW ITS MORPHOLOGICAL RESULT CP CP TP TP C C will+ø T will C [TNS] ø PRN you PRN you T’ T’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane VP VP T will T will V marry V marry PRN me PRN me

  9. §4.3 MOVEMENT AS COPYING & DELETION What would happen if will were to vanish from TP after moving to C, as in (8) below? CP has no head TP C will+ø has a single branch PRN you ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane T’ VP V marry PRN me

  10. COPY THEORY OF MOVEMENT • T contains gapped (elided < ellipsis) material • 11a) He could have helped her, or she could have helped him. (no gapping) • 11b) He could have helped her, or she could have helped him. (gapping) • The latter is questionable for me. • Procedure/algorithm for (head) movement • A copy of the target element moves to the target node. • The original occurrence of the target element is deleted by giving it null spellout. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  11. SOME EVIDENCE FOR COPYING IN T-TO-C MVT • Auxiliary copying in young children (Sam age 2) • 14a) Can its wheels can spin? • 14b) Did the kitchen light did flash? • 14c) Is the steam is hot? • 14d) Was that was Anna? • Have cliticization • 16a) Should they have called the police? • 16a) *Should they’ve called the police? • *Should they should ’ve called the police? • should blocks the adjacency between they and ve. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  12. V-TO-T MOVEMENT ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Radford §4.4

  13. Elizabethan English • 20a) She shall not see me. • 22b) Didst thou not hear somebody? • 24a) I care not for her. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  14. POSITION OF NOT: VP ADVERB CP TP C ø PRN she T’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane VP T shall ADV not VP V marry PRN me

  15. V-TO-T MOVEMENT CP Tense must be strong in Elizabethan English and weak in modern English TP C ø PRN I T’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane VP T Af1sgPr care+ ADV not VP V care PP P for PRN her

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