LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture 9: LINGUIST 1AA3_Week 9

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Wh-questions cooking is really ramesh is cooking what . In other words, the deep structure of the sentence, . Our theory claims that in the deep structure of a wh-question, the wh-phrase is generated in the position that it would occupy if it were the answer to the question. The wh-word what is a pronoun that stands in for the noun phrase that refers to what he really is cooking. What"s the : who , did we invite , we should . (pretend the sentence is a statement, not a question) Wrote that book about germs: who , wrote that book . About germs: wrote that book about germs . How it is represented in our minds. Some phrases or sentences can have more than one meaning. Yoko ono will talk about her husband john lennon who was killed in an interview with. Barbara walters : lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity.