01:615:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Genitive Case, Complementizer, Complementary Distribution
29 Sep 2016
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We began expanding our understanding of dps, tps, and cps. After this we examined the structures of possessive suffixes and saw what exactly can take the place of a determiner in that phrase structure. We hypothesize that the structure is as follows to keep consistent with other phrase structures: The evidence for this structure exists in examples of possessive phrases. This is where the strongest evidence can be found. We might think that this s is a suffix but if it is, we. 11526-syntax-2016-09-28 wouldn"t need to provide it a node of its own and wouldn"t need to worry about it. However, it is not just a suffix. There is evidence that it is more of a word/symbol that indicates possessiveness. This evidence is in the properties of suffixes; possessives don"t need to attach directly to what they modify like suffixes do. This meaning indicates that unlike with suffixes, s (the genitive s) can be far from the np.
