1 / 8

Advanced Tree-Structures

Advanced Tree-Structures. Incorporating sentence types in a unified description tt. (Complementizer Phrase = S´). CP. Functional categories. XP. C´. C [+ Que]. OP. XP. O´. O [+Past]. VP. Lexical categories. NP. V´. did. V. NP. Homer. the Oddity. write.

karan
Download Presentation

Advanced Tree-Structures

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Advanced Tree-Structures Incorporating sentence types in a unified description tt

  2. (Complementizer Phrase = S´) CP Functional categories XP C´ C [+Que] OP XP O´ O [+Past] VP Lexical categories NP V´ did V NP Homer the Oddity write Did Homer write the Oddity? (Operator Phrase = S)

  3. CP AdvP C´ When C [+Que] OP XP O´ O [+Past] VP NP V´ did V NP Homer the Oddity write When did Homer write the Oddity?

  4. CP NP C´ C [+Que] OP XP O´ O [+Past] VP NP V´ did V NP Homer what write What did Homer write? Cf. the echo-question: Did Homer write what?

  5. CP NP C´ What C [+Que] OP XP O´ O [+Past] VP NP V´ did V NP Homer t write What did Homer write? what

  6. CP NP C´ Who C [+Que] OP XP O´ O [+Past] VP NP V´ wrote V NP who t write the Oddity t Who wrote The Oddity? Cf. Who did write the Oddity? - without V-movement who

  7. CP XP C´ C [+Dec] OP NP O´ O [+Past] VP Homer NP V´ wrote V NP t the Oddity t Homer wrote the Oddity. Cf. Homer did write the Oddity - without V-movement

  8. Who did you wanna beat ? Who did you want to beat t *Who did you wanna win? Who did you want t to win Reality of traces Nothing between want and to, so contraction is OK There is a ’trace’ between want and to, so contraction is NOT OK

More Related