LING 3004 Lecture 16: LING 3004 Lecture 16 Nov 20

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3004
• Professor: Kumiko Murasugi

Document Summary

Mood and modals: (cid:373)ood: speaker"s perspe(cid:272)tive o(cid:374) a(cid:374) eve(cid:374)t (cid:894)possi(cid:271)le, pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)ly, (cid:374)e(cid:272)essary, o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374), et(cid:272). (cid:895) Indicated by modals in english (can, could, would, may, might, must, shall, should, ought: several modals can indicate a mood/ perspective. Tense time of an event in relation to the moment of speaking: past, present, future. Aspect time of an event in relation to a specific reference point: perfect: before reference point, progressive: ongoing in relation to reference point. Voice different perspectives; changes number of arguments: active: focus on agent, passive: focus on theme, chart of tense, aspect, voice. Theta grid of aux: haveperf: vp[form participle, -perfect, beprog: vp[form gerund, -perfect, -progressive, bepass: vp[form participle, -perfect, -passive, progressive] Chapter 10: head-to-head movement: sentences x-(cid:271)ar (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t ge(cid:374)erate. Transformations: movement: x or xp insertion: it-insertion, do-insertion, d-structure (structure given my x-bar), s-structure (structure after insertion and movement, computational component of grammar.