...
1 PL M/F we us our/ours
2 SG/PL M/F
you
you your/yours
3 SG M he him his
3 SG F she her her/hers
3 SG N it it its
3 PL M/F/N
they
them their/theirs
(SG = singular; PL = plural; ... illustrated in (34 ) below:
(34 )(a) I wonder whether to [go home] (b) Many people want the government to [change course]
(c) We don’t intend to [surrender]
In each example in...
... infinitive particle in the bracketed TPs in (35 /36 ) must be overtly spelled out as to when the relevant
TP is used as the complement of a passive participle like known in (35 b) or seen in (36 b), ... the perfect participle
known in (35 a) or the past tense form saw in (36 a) – a key difference being that a null spellout for the
infinitive particle is optional in structures like (35 a) b...
... impeached
So, we see that the EPP Generalisation in (34 ) provides a descriptively adequate characterisation of data
like (29), (33 ), (35 ) and (36 ). (See Bowers 2002 for an alternative account of ... BE to form the structure (37 ) below:
(37 ) T '
T VP
BE
[Past-Tns] V PRN
[u-Pers] arrested THEY
[u-Num] [3- Pers]
[EPP] [Pl-Num]
[u-Case]
In (37 ), [
T
BE] is...
...
accordance with (34 iii), so deriving:
(65) [several prizes] [
T
BE] thought likely several prizes [
T
to] be awarded several prizes
[3- Pers] [Pres-Tns] [3- Pers]
[Pl-Num] [3- Pers] [EPP] ... spec-TP in accordance with the EPP Generalisation (34 i), deriving:
(68) there [
T
to] be awarded [several prizes]
[3- Pers] [3- Pers] [3- Pers]
[EPP] [Pl-Num]
[u-Case]
Since ther...
... Cambridge, pp.
33 7 -38 3.
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Lasnik, H. & Sobin, N. (2000) ‘The Who/Whom Puzzle: On the preservation of an archaic feature’,
Natural Language and Linguistic...
... discussion. A particularly poignant
example of this is a child called Genie (See Curtiss 1977, Rymer 19 93) , who was deprived of speech input
and kept locked up on her own in a room until age 13. When ... which generalises from the
grammars of particular I-languages to the grammars of all possible natural (i.e. human) I-languages. He
defines UG (1986a, p. 23) as ‘the theory of human I-la...
... inflections are the perfect/passive participle suffix -n, the past tense
suffix -d, the third person singular present tense suffix -s, and the progressive participle/gerund suffix -ing.
Like ... children face. PPT hypothesises that
grammatical properties which are universal will not have to be learned by the child, since they are wired
into the language faculty and hence part of the chi...
...
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3
Structure
3. 1 Overview
In this chapter, we introduce the notion of syntactic structure, ... described in terms of the sets of features in ( 63) below:
( 63) verb = [+V, –N] adjective = [+V, +N] noun = [–V, +N] preposition = [–V, –N]
What ( 63) claims is that verbs have verbal but not ... being used in this particular
sentence. For example, the N label on c...
...
(33 ) The press said that the chairman would resign from the board, and resigned from the board he has
The fact that the italicised expression resigned from the board can be preposed in (33 ) ... Ruritania – as in (36 e).
It is interesting to note that alongside sentences like (36 ) above in which a phrase has been highlighted
by being preposed, we also find sentences like (38 ) below...
... person, as the contrast in (3) below shows:
(3) (a) Don’t lose your nerve! (b) *Don’t lose their nerve!
In other words, imperative null subjects seem to be a silent counterpart of you. One way ... the auxiliary è ‘is’ and the participle tornata
‘returned’ in (1). Just as the form of the (third person singular) auxiliary è ‘is’ and the (feminine singular)
participle tornata is determi...