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L2 Syntax Lecture 9: More on passives, and Raising

Today. Recap on the ?-criterion, the Case filter, and movement for CaseMore on passives in EnglishA useful diagnostic: object idiom chunksIntroduction to Raising. Today's reading. Santorini

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L2 Syntax Lecture 9: More on passives, and Raising

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    1. L2 Syntax Lecture 9: More on passives, and Raising Robert Truswell

    2. Today Recap on the ?-criterion, the Case filter, and movement for Case More on passives in English A useful diagnostic: object idiom chunks Introduction to Raising

    3. Today’s reading Santorini & Kroch, ch.10 (up to, but not including, “The passive and nonfinite complementation”) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/ch10.html Links from WebCT and from the course website.

    4. Movement, thematic roles and case Local relationships Thematic roles assigned by lexical heads within elementary trees Objective case assigned by V or P to their complement Nominative case assigned by I to its specifier Two constraints Theta criterion Case filter

    5. The theta criterion Every DP must be assigned exactly one thematic role, and every thematic role must be assigned

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