head movement 3 oct. 8, 2012 – day 17 introduction to syntax anth 3590/7590 harry howard tulane...
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Head movement 3Oct. 8, 2012 – Day 17Introduction to Syntax
ANTH 3590/7590
Harry Howard
Tulane University
Course management
http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ We need to spend our $150 from the
Provost’s Undergraduate Activities Fund.
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REVIEWThe quiz was the review
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ANOTHER LOOK AT NEGATIONRadford §4.7
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Not gets its own phrase, NegP
It could be the head or the specifier of this phrase. What’s a specifier?, you may ask. It is the left-hand daughter of XP.
For reasons which are not immediately clear, Radford chooses it to be the specifier.
Putting it in the specifier prevents head movement from picking it up and carrying it forward, which would be incorrect.
On the other hand, Radford’s representations do not have anything at all in Neg in this section (!), but the next section has ø, so I include it on the next slide.
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NEGP AND AUX-TO-T
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TP
T’PRNyou
NegPTAf2sPres
ADVnot
AuxP
CP
Cø
VP
Negø
Vcall
DetPthe police
Neg’
Auxneed
need+ø+
-------------need+
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DO SUPPORTRadford §4.8
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Why can’t T hop down to V via Neg?1
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T’PRNI
NegPTAf1sPres
ADVnot
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VPNegø
Vcare
PPfor her
Neg’
Recall that …•I care not for her. (Elizabethan)•= I do not care for her. (modern)
+ø+Af1sPres
Note to self
Radford introduces the notions of earliness and strict cyclicity to account for the absence of affix lowering over Neg, but I do not see that they are really necessary.
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Answer Assume that Neg is not an appropriate host
for tense, since it has nothing to do with tense and so cannot be spelled out as an inflected verb.
Instead of having the derivation crash whenever affix hopping is blocked by Neg, English has a last resort mechanism of spelling out the material stranded in T with the dummy or expletive verb do. See #54 for complicated definition.
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DO SUPPORT WITH NEGP
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TP
T’PRNI
NegPTdo+Af1sPres
ADVnot
CP
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Vcare
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Neg’
DO SUPPORT WITH POLP (POLARITY PHRASE ), #55F/64
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T’PRNhe
PolPTdo+Af3sPast
ADV(so)
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Vwin
PRNit
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EX. 4.1, P. 147Put on board
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NEXT TIMEGo over exercises 4.2
Start WH movement
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