LING 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pronoun, Accusative Case, Krypto

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2200
• Professor: MacDonald

Document Summary

S = sole obligatory argument in an intransitive clause. A = most agent-like argument in a transitive clause. = erg: uncompleted events (imperf/non-past) = acc, main clause = acc, subordinate = erg, affirmative = erg, negative = acc. Subject > object > indirect object > oblique > possessor > object of comparison. Typology of language: agreement only with a v a+v, intran s, tran a o. Divides languages into head and dependent marking. Head of the clause is inflected to show their relationship with their dependents, but not the other way around. Subject syntactic properties: subject is missing argument in imperative clause, subjects control reflexive pronouns, subject controls reference of null np in another clause, subject is usual target for promotion, subject is most accessible to relativization. When inversion is applied the auxiliary verb will move to the left of the subject.