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Testing structure Day 7, Sept. 12, 2012

Testing structure Day 7, Sept. 12, 2012. Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University. Course management. http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/. §2.4 Clauses containing complementizers. Intro.

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Testing structure Day 7, Sept. 12, 2012

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  1. Testing structureDay 7, Sept. 12, 2012 Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University

  2. Course management • http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  3. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  4. §2.4 Clauses containing complementizers ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  5. Intro • Minimalism calls coordinating conjunctions ‘complemetizers’, abbreviated as C(OMP). • I said several stupid things. • I said that the Earth was flat. • Structure • I said [NP several stupid things] • I said [S’ that [S [NP the Earth] [T was] [AP flat]]] • Do you see a problem with this? • I said [CP that [TP [NP the Earth] [T’ [T was] [AP flat]]]] ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  6. §2.5 Testing structure ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  7. Some tests • The coordination condition • Only constituents of the same type can be coordinated by means of the coordinating conjunctions and, or & but. • Substitution • Only constituents can be replaced by a proform such as personal pronouns, so & do. • The preposing condition • When material is preposed in order to highlight it, what is preposed is the smallest possible maximal projection containing the highlighted material. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  8. Other constraints • The economy condition • Syntactic structures should contain as few words as possible, and syntactic operations should affect as few words as possible. • The functional head constraint • The complement of a certain type of functional head, call it F, cannot be moved on its own (without also moving F). ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  9. Exercise 2.1, p. 70 • Quick way to draw a tree. • Write the sentence along the bottom of your space. • Write the syntactic category of each word above it. • Merge categories starting at the end and working your way forward. • If one line crosses another, you are on the wrong track. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  10. THE EXAMPLE OF EX. 2.1-1 TP T’ VP AdjP Adj’ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane PP PRN T V ADV ADJ P NP He has become very fond of Mary

  11. Q1 ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane MIN 0.0 MAX 10.0 AVG 6.4

  12. NEXT TIME ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane C-command, bare phrase structure, summary 2.6 - 2.9, Ex 2.2

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