LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Move

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

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Has been around since 1897 longer than trick or treating". If you lost something in the midterm, describe it to her and she"ll give it back to you: after today, she"s giving it to the lost and found. Midterm grades will be available early next week. Zoe ziliak michel policy analyst: reading social science research, communicating results to lawmakers, potential funders, general public, manges complex projects. Tree diagrams to represent deep and surface structure of wh-questions. Understand link between syntactic structure and sentence meaning. Determine ds positions presente sentence is a statement, not question. Now specificier position is the landing position. Speccp is the landing site for wh-movement. Yes-no: head moves to another head position. Phrase can"t move to head positions, and heads can"t move to phrase positions. Idea that a meaning of a sentence arises from its structure. What did you buy for your sister? : you [+past] buy what for your sister.