Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Interrogative CPs We have seen in a number of previous places that the head and the specifier have a special relationship. In th ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases If the wh-element is moved to the specifier of CP then the result is a wh- interrogative inte ...

Interrogative CPs interpreted as an operator, clearly has not undergone movement and so seems to violate the interpretative prin ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases The case of aspectual auxiliaries is similar to the modals. In the previous chapter we claime ...

Interrogative CPs We know that the complementiser is the head of the CP and that this provides the relevant features for the for ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases enables the clause to be interpreted as an interrogative. One way to realise this agreement r ...

Interrogative CPs But this is a puzzle. Why do we not get inversion in an embedded interrogative? If the account of why we get i ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases If we assume that Q, like if, is not a bound morpheme, then there will be no reason for inver ...

Interrogative CPs No other complementiser can do this: (58) a I don’t know [if and when to stand up] b she wondered [if or not t ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases (62) CP Op C' C IP Like other main clauses the complementiser position is empty and yet the n ...

Interrogative CPs 3.5 Subject questions The last issue concerning interrogatives we will discuss concerns the difference between ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases (69) CP DP C' who 2 C IP met 1 DP I' t 2 I VP t 1 you As a structure this is straightforward. ...

Relative Clauses To conclude this section. It seems that the distribution of elements in an English sentence is partly due to st ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases (75) NP N' AP N' favourite N' and N' places I like to go people I like to visit However, ther ...

Relative Clauses Both kinds of relative clauses can be coordinated with other like constituents showing that they both form a co ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases a relative pronoun is somewhat stigmatised, being seen as a characteristic of ‘uneducated’ sp ...

Relative Clauses (87) a the butler [that Sherlock suspects -] b the butler [Sherlock suspects -] We should first counter a myth ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases a modifier of the noun by relating the noun to a position in the relative clause itself. Thus ...

Relative Clauses because the clause needs to be interpreted as interrogative. This clearly cannot be the reason for the movement ...

Chapter 7 - Complementiser Phrases 5 Other fronting movements So far we have concentrated on movements which seem to specificall ...