Glossarypronominal: those DPs that cannot have a binder within the binding domain.
See also anaphor.
pronoun: a DP that usually refers to another DP, but contains only the grammatical
features (number, person, gender) of it (I, you, he, she, etc.). Its
interpretation depends on linguistic factors or the situation. Within the DP
pronouns occupy the D head position, as they cannot be modified by
determiners even on very special readings (as opposed to grammaticality
of the John I met yesterday)
proper noun: a name, e.g. John, Wendy Smith, the Beatles. Within the DP it
appears as an NP (as opposed to pronouns)
quantificational operator: an operator that is interpreted like quantificational
pronouns like every, all, some, e.g. wh-elements in questions. See also
anaphoric operator.
quantifier: a determiner that expresses a definite or indefinite amount or
number of the nominal expression it modifies, e.g. all, both, some, many,
four.
quasi-argument: the subject of weather-verbs (it in It's raining) and potentially there
in existential there-constructions.
raising: a process whereby the subject of an embedded infinitival clause moves to
the subject position of the verb selecting the clause. In such structures
the selecting verb is a one-argument verb selecting a clause (like seem). If
the clause is non-finite, the subject of the embedded clause is not
assigned Case within the clause, but since the subject position of the
selecting verb is empty it can move there to be case-marked.
raising adjective: an adjective inducing raising, e.g. likely in Peter is likely to
win.
raising verb: a verb inducing raising, e.g. seem, appear.
recoverable: a constituent is recoverable if it can be identified even if it has undergone
deletion. Recoverability is a condition on syntactic processes.
recursive rule: a rule where the definition refers to what is being defined, e.g. the
adjunct rule. The same symbol appears on the left and on the right of the
rewrite rule, so the rule can be applied indefinitely. The application of
such a rule is optional for this reason.
referential: something that refers to something. Lexical DPs are referential, e.g.
anaphors are not, they gain reference by coindexation with a referential
element.
reflexive pronoun: a DP without independent reference, e.g. himself. Reflexives
always need an antecedent.
regular: can be described with the help of a rule, e.g. the regular plural form of
nominal expressions is formed by adding the plural morpheme -s.
relative clause: relative clauses are adjoined to NPs, they give information about
the nominal expression. See restrictive and non-restrictive relative clause.
Relativized Minimality: a rule expressing the locality conditions on movement, see
also Locality Restrictions on Movement.
X Y Z where X, Y and Z are of the same type