LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Adverbial Clause, Surface Roughness, Deep Structure And Surface Structure

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING477
• Professor: Yaping Tsai

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Copy the first auxiliary of the main clause. Change the polarity of the auxiliary, contract if negative. Copy the subject of the main clause. Substitute the subject with an appropriate pronoun. Is derived from the form of its corresponding declarative sentence via transformation. Move t of the main clause to the front, and employ do-support if necessary (like yes/no question) (the subject-auxiliary inversion step) Wh-fronting; move the wh-phrase to the front. * subject-auxiliary is not visible on the surface form of subject question. Notice that in subject-question, not only is there no subject-auxiliary inversion on the surface, there is no do-support either. I wonder [cp if sally is dating billy] No subject-auxiliary inversion, no do-support in the embedded questions (in standard. A wh-movement is said to be long distance if it is moved from an embedded clause to the beginning of the main clause. Who is the object of the verb met in the embedded clause)