LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Complementizer
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S np vp **** (this is revised to s np i vp)***** N (pp: the ball disappeared, magripole lassoed the weasel, the new student works at that plant, the book of poems fell, the wind forced the boat into the water suddenly, the ranger can lasso the cute weasel. We have to revise the rule to be s np i vp. I stands for modals (can, may, might, could, must, should, shall), auxiliary/helping verbs (have, is, am, are, had), tense, inflection. When the i is obligatory, we need to explain . I will indicate the tense (or inflection). Vp: bruce knows that the book of poems fell. Bruce knows that the book of poems fell. C in this rule stands for complementizer (i. e. that ), which introduces a sentence. Heads seem to be special, but our ps rules do not capture that observation. S (sentence) is going to take the name of the head.
