LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Syntactic Movement, Tree Structure, Indo-European Languages
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Lin102 lecture 4: tree structure; movement; modifiers and embedded clauses. Syntactic movement: sometimes words don"t show up where we"d expect them to, between one form of a sentence and another, there is a difference in word order. Common phenomenon and english, and most indo-european languages (e. g. french, Russian, etc. : complementizer phrase are quite versatile. Embedded cps, when they function as the complement of the verb. The complementizer precedes the subject in english, so it is above the tp. Cps as complements: they occupy similar positions to other complements, complementizers are connectors: they can connect the subject to the verb. Questions about the truth of a sentence. Many languages form polar questions by adding a specific questions word to as sentence (as in ka in japanese) In many european languages, including english, polar questions are formed by changing the order of the sentence instead: polar question and cps. Actually, a single analysis explains all these phenomena.
