LINGUIST 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lexical Verb, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, List Of Forgotten Realms Nations

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

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Week 4 online modules: 4a move: ex: ann hopes that the leafs will win, if ann asks instead: complementizer that does not work very well, anne asked if the leafs will win, asked: sub-categorizes for a question clause. Question clause: question clause = q+ in c head position, q+ feature does its job by ensuring that the thing in the c head position is good, ie: if works; that does not work. Sentences with modals in i-head position: modals moved from i-head to c-head position with [+q] feature. Insert verb do in past tense in i-head position (did) Since auxiliary is taking the tense, drop the tense and convert lexical feature to its bare form (phone: move the modal in i-head position into the c-head position, under [q+, now: did samira phone, c [+q] did. Week 4 online module: 4b wh movement.