LING 371 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Binding Domain, Problem Set, Pronoun

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 371
• Professor: Junko Shimoyama

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Familiar format: tree; indicate which nodes are targeted; what we learn; what test is used: structural relations. Familiar format: abstract tree followed by questions: trees (2) Familiar format: some constituency test results are given: binding violation of the principle, what the problem is, non-english problem. In this part you are expected to apply your knowledge to new data. Familiar format: for dps in a given sentence, indicate the relevant binding. Principle, & binding domain, whether the dp is bound, whether there(cid:495)s any. 5: since this is an applied question, it(cid:495)s hard to give very concrete practice examples those terminal nodes form a constituent (see the definition of (cid:494)constituent(cid:495). (cid:524) for this part. Being well prepared for parts 1-4 is key. All constituency tests are used to see whether a given string forms a constituent or not. A side note: if there is a node that exhaustively dominates a set of terminal nodes,