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Introduction to syntax
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Introduction to syntax
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Course time: Tuesday/Friday 11:00 AM-12:50 PM Location: JSB 221 instructor: David Pesetsky ([email protected]) office: to be announced office hours: to be announced TAs: Danfeng Wu ([email protected]) Sahar Taghipour ([email protected]) office hours: to be announced
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Tentative plan
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Basic phrase structure
Constituents • Sentence fragments, movement, ellipsis,
anaphora as tests for constituency, ambiguities
• built by the rule "Merge" Subcategorization and the notion "head" • The sisterhood condition on
subcategorization, and some consequences. Implications for acquisition.
• Modification of the sisterhood condition gives the notion "head".
• Structural definition of grammatical relations: subject, object
θ-roles • Agent, patient, goal... • the Uniformity of Theta Assignment
Hypothesis (UTAH)
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Universal Grammar and language variation
• the Cinque hierarchy • head-final vs. head-initial languages • mixed languages: FOFC
Movement as Internal Merge
• scrambling in Japanese • wh-movement in English • verb-second (V2) in Germanic • V2 on four continents • V-to-T in French • Verb-initiality in Irish
Case Theory • morphological case systems
• Case and the licensing of nominal complements
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A-movement • Exceptional Case Marking • Passive: movement motivated by Case • VP-internal subjects • Unaccusativity and Raising (vs. Control)
A-bar movement • wh-movement and pied-piping: probes and
goals • Successive-cyclicity and island phenomena
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Lexicon
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1. the 2. girl 3. will 4. read 5.book
part of speech
Determiner Noun Tense Verb Noun
meaning take Ladusaw's course
who is a girl
future whatever "read" means
which is a book
sound [ðə] [gɹ̩l] [wɪl] [ri:d] [bʊk]
Lexicon
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. dog?
credit: Radford, Andrew. 1988. Transformational Grammar: A First Course. CUP, Cambridge.
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. the lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. over the lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. jump over the lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. will jump over the lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. *fox will jump over the lazy dog?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. fox?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. brown fox?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. quick brown fox?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox?
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The quick brown fox will jump over the lazy dog. *jump over the?
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Terminology
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• node
• immediately dominates
• dominates
• mother
• daughter
• sister
• root node
• terminal node
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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lazy merges with dog
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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Merge Form a set (called a phrase or constituent) whose members are two elements α and β, either or both of which may be:
a. words from the lexicon, or b. a set previously formed by Merge
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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the merges with lazy dog
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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over merges with the lazy dog
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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jump merges with over the lazy dog
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will merges with jump over the lazy dog
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Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away ... brown merges with fox
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: produced by Merge
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quick merges with brown fox
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the merges with quick brown fox
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and then ... the quick brown fox merges with will jump over the lazy dog
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: Generated by Merge
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SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE: labeling the nodes
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• The sister of a preposition must contain a noun (even if a determiner and various articles linearly intervene) The quick brown fox will jump ... a. ... over the lazy dog. b. ... over the dog. c. ... over lazy dogs. d. ... over dogs. e. ... over the ridiculous lazy dog. f. ... *over the. g. ... *over the lazy. h. ... *over of.
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Noun Phrases (NP)
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The nodes for which N is the head are labeled N' or NP. They are "projections" of N. (Sophisticates: don't ask me about DP.)
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eat vs. devour ask vs. inquire throw vs. put give vs. hand vs. write
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(1) a. Mary has eaten. b. Mary has eaten the pizza. c. *Mary has devoured. d. Mary has devoured the pizza. (2) a. Bill will ask the time. b. *Bill will inquire the time. c. Bill will ask about the time.
d. Bill will inquire about the time.
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(3) a. [?]Sue will throw. b. Sue will throw the ball. c. Sue will throw the ball to Tom. d. [?]Sue will throw to Tom. [a & d ok in sports context] e. *Sue will put. f. *Sue will put the book. g. Sue will put the book under the desk. h. *Sue will put under the desk.
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The facts: eat: optional NP sister devour: obligatory NP sister inquire: *NP sister ask: ok (?) NP sister throw: optional NP and optional PP sisters put: obligatory NP PP sisters
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Subcategorization information in lexical entries: eat: [+ __ (NP)] devour: [+ __ NP] ask: [+ __ NP] inquire: (not like ask) throw: [+ __ NP (PP)] put: [+ __ NP PP]
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It's not just verbs that have subcategorization properties:
(1) adjectives a. *Mary is fond. b. Mary is fond of her friends.
c. Mary is proud. d. Mary is proud of her friends.
(2) prepositions a. *Mary went into. b. Mary went into the room. c. Mary went in. d. Mary went in the room.
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Chomsky's generalization The lexical entry for a word contains subcategorization information only about its sister.
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What's interesting about Chomsky's generalization?
Significance for language acquisition:
1.Assume the generalization is just the way language works — part of Universal Grammar.
2.This means that a child who is acquiring language does not
have to pay attention to the entire phrase structure tree when learning the subcategorization requirements of a word. Makes the task easier.
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What's wrong with the generalization? A verb may subcategorize for the P of a complement PP: English Russian depend on zaviset' ot lit. 'depend from' speak to govorit' s lit. 'speak with' look at smotret' na lit. 'watch on' look for iskat' knigu lit. 'seek'
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Modification of Chomsky's generalization:
The revised subcategorization generalization The lexical entry for a word contains subcategorization
information about the head of its sister. We can now use the revised generalization to probe for the heads of phrases:
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V subcategorizes for the complementizer of its complement when that complement is a clause (that vs. for): (1) a. Mary will believe
[that the brown fox has depended on the lazy dog]. b. Mary will arrange
[for the brown fox to depend on the lazy dog]. (2) a. *Mary will believe
[for the brown fox to depend on the lazy dog]. b. *Mary will arrange [that the brown fox has depended on the lazy book].
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NOTE: FROM THIS POINT ON, WE DIDN'T GET TO THESE SLIDES, BUT THEY ARE WHAT'S COMING NEXT, AND USEFUL FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. SEE THE SUMMARY (last page) FOR A PROBABLY MORE USEFUL VERSION
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C subcategorizes for the I of its sister (to vs. tensed verb): (3) a. *Mary will believe
[that the brown fox to depend on the lazy dog]. b. Mary will arrange
[for the brown fox to depend on the lazy dog]. c. Mary will believe
[that the brown fox has depended on the lazy dog]. d. *Mary will arrange
[for the brown fox has depended on the lazy dog].
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I subcategorizes for the V-morphology of its VP complement (1) a. ... [for the quick brown fox to [depend on the lazy dog]. b. *...[for the quick brown fox to [depended on the lazy dog]. (2) a. ... [that the quick brown fox will [depend on the lazy dog]. b. *... [that the quick brown fox will [depended on the lazy dog].
(3) a. *... [that the quick brown fox has depend on the lazy dog]. b. ... [that the quick brown fox has depended on the lazy dog].
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