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Head movement 3 Oct. 8, 2012 – Day 17

Head movement 3 Oct. 8, 2012 – Day 17. 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. REVIEW. The quiz was the review.

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Head movement 3 Oct. 8, 2012 – Day 17

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  1. Head movement 3Oct. 8, 2012 – Day 17 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. REVIEW ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane The quiz was the review

  4. ANOTHER LOOK AT NEGATION ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Radford §4.7

  5. Not gets its own phrase, NegP • It could be the head or the specifier of this phrase. • What’s a specifier?, you may ask. • It is the left-hand daughter of XP. • For reasons which are not immediately clear, Radford chooses it to be the specifier. • Putting it in the specifier prevents head movement from picking it up and carrying it forward, which would be incorrect. • On the other hand, Radford’s representations do not have anything at all in Neg in this section (!), but the next section has ø, so I include it on the next slide. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  6. NEGP AND AUX-TO-T CP TP C ø PRN you T’ NegP T Af2sPres need+ø+ ADV not ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Neg’ Neg ø AuxP ------------- need+ Aux need VP ----- V call DetP the police

  7. DO SUPPORT ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Radford §4.8

  8. Why can’t T hop down to V via Neg? CP TP C ø PRN I T’ NegP T Af1sPres ADV not Neg’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Neg ø VP V care PP for her +ø+Af1sPres • Recall that … • I care not for her. (Elizabethan) • = I do not care for her. (modern)

  9. Note to self • Radford introduces the notions of earliness and strict cyclicity to account for the absence of affix lowering over Neg, but I do not see that they are really necessary. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  10. Answer • Assume that Neg is not an appropriate host for tense, since it has nothing to do with tense and so cannot be spelled out as an inflected verb. • Instead of having the derivation crash whenever affix hopping is blocked by Neg, English has a last resort mechanism of spelling out the material stranded in T with the dummy or expletive verb do. • See #54 for complicated definition. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  11. DO SUPPORT WITH NEGP CP TP C ø PRN I T’ NegP T do+Af1sPres ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane ADV not Neg’ Neg ø VP V care PP for her

  12. DO SUPPORT WITH POLP (POLARITY PHRASE ), #55F/64 CP TP C ø PRN he T’ PolP T do+Af3sPast ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane ADV (so) Pol’ Pol ø VP V win PRN it

  13. EX. 4.1, P. 147 ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Put on board

  14. NEXT TIME ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Go over exercises 4.2 Start WH movement

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