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... both (26a) and (26b), but differ in that they are used prenominally (i.e.
with a following noun expression) in (26a), but pronominally (i.e. without any following noun expression)
in (26b). ... expressions in
sentences such as (26a/b) below:
(26) (a) [We republicans] don’t trust [you democrats] (b) [We] don’t trust [you]
Since we and you in (26a) modify the nouns republicans/democra...
... throughout the rest of the book, partial labelled bracketings are used to show those parts of the
structure most relevant to the discussion at hand, omitting other parts. In such cases, we generally ... sorry [I have kept you waiting]
(10)(a) Jim promised [PRO to come to my party] (b) Jim promised [he would come to my party]
The fact that the bracketed clauses in the (b) examples conta...
... number features), and probe and goal have
matching f-feature values. Feature Deletion yields:
(26) [BE] thought likely to be awarded [several prizes]
[Pres-Tns] [3-Pers]
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Chomsky sees ... a constituent that makes it active (and hence able to serve as a probe or goal,
and to play a part in feature-valuation and feature-deletion).
8.5 Expletive it subjects
So far, a...
... control clause containing a PRO argument. In each
case, PRO is the thematic complement of a passive participle (viz. betrayed/indicted/accused). Hence, if
control to has no [EPP] feature and PRO ... subject in a sentence like
*There has decided to be an enquiry). Given the VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis, the PRO subject of the
bracketed infinitive clause will originate in spec-VP, as the...
...
language being acquired.
The hypothesis that the course of language acquisition is determined by an innate language faculty is
known popularly as the innateness hypothesis. Chomsky maintains that ... universal are part of our biological endowment,
then the natural conclusion to reach is that (7) is a principle which is biologically wired into the language
faculty, and which thus forms...
... 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...
... being used in this particular
sentence. For example, the N label on comments in (59b) tells us that the item in question functions as a
noun in this particular position in this particular sentence, ... complement, the progressive auxiliary is selects a progressive participle complement,
and the perfect auxiliary has selects a perfect participle complement. In other words, a full descriptio...
... diagram like (26) has the status of a hypothesis (i.e. untested and unproven
assumption) about the structure of the relevant sentence. How can we test our hypothesis and determine
whether (26) is ... forming the TP shown in (26) below:
(26) TP
DP T '
D N T VP
The chairman has
V PP
resigned
P DP
from
D N
the board
The tree diagram in (26) is a representation...
... 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 determined ...
like ‘I will shut him up if he tries to say says anything’). Polarity expressions include the partitive
quantifier any (and related compounds like anyone/anything), the items need and dare ... i...