Basic English Grammar with Exercises

X-bar Theory understood in this sentence: you! An imperative cannot be interpreted as a command given to some third person and m ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory If the VP cannot be argued to function as a clause, one might try to argue that c ...

X-bar Theory (19) XP YP X' V YP fall These features then project to the X': (20) XP YP V' V YP fall And finally they end up on t ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory which determine this. Recall that part of the lexical entry for a word concerns i ...

X-bar Theory 1.4 Specifiers So far we have been concerned with heads and their complements. In this section we turn to specifier ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory The verbs ask and wonder both have questions as their complements, but only with ...

X-bar Theory noun, we conclude that it is an NP. In (32c) however, the phrase following the determiner contains only an adjectiv ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory (36) NP spec N' AP N' popular AP N' smart N student This could go on indefinitely ...

X-bar Theory (40) NP NP RelS NP RelS which I didn’t read N' which I told you about N book Again, we could keep adding NPs and re ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory to find the adjunct itself being made up of a compound, which has a very differen ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement The three X-bar rules introduce three elements besides the head. The complement is introduced as ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory object, we should expect it to occupy the object position. The grammar that we wi ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement Finally in (50d) we see another kind of movement which appears to split a constituent across the ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory The structure we end up with is one that is perfectly compatible with X-bar princ ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement (61) S DP VP Mary VP PP met Mark in the park After the movement, the structure will look like th ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory these two positions are not the same then X will have to move from its D-structur ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement assignment that can be seen in (64) is that -roles are not assigned over long distances. For an ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory (71) VP DP V' the book V PP fell off the shelf Then it follows from the UTAH that ...

Theoretical Aspects of Movement The verb smile is intransitive and therefore does not have a -role to assign to an object. If w ...

Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory formedness conditions of D-structure is the lexicon which provides structures wit ...