LING 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Future Tense, Gerund, Complementary Distribution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3004
• Professor: Kumiko Murasugi

Document Summary

**** two sheets of study notes in midterm: verbs and cp complements, that grids, complimentizers. Np[plural, an: null determiners vs overt determiners, still have features. Np[proper, -plural: because null, abstract but in order to form grammatical dp, features need to match theta grids in slides, many (many books, *many book, *many sand(s, much (*much book(s), much sand) many. Np[-count, -plural, -proper, -pronoun: all (all students) the house. Np[+plural, -proper, -pronoun] these children these my car my. Theta grids: provide information on restriction on complements. Theta grid of tense of t null past. Modals: also appear in t, can, could, may, might, will, would , shall, should, must indicate mood, speakers perspective on event (e. g. possibility, probability, necessarily, obligation) Modals: properties of modals, no inflection, only one first element in verbal string (before aux and neg, subj-aux inversion in t: complementary distribution with tense, modal + aux (might have, might not) specific position.