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Unified Syntax Analysis Using Advanced Tree Structures

Incorporating different sentence types into a unified syntactic description framework, exploring CP functional categories, and examining the application of operator phrases in sentence construction.

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Unified Syntax Analysis Using Advanced Tree Structures

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  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

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