LING 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Thematic Relation, Complementizer

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

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Chapter 9 auxiliaries and functional categories: chapter 8 talked about theta girds, chapter 9: restrictions on complementary elements. V+cp: different verbs can take different complementizer, whether tensed or not tensed, form (hand out) of complementizer, c has specific form has tells about properties of tp features contained in c. [+/- q] if [+q] can have a question, if [-q] will be a statement: will be [+/- finite] clause. I think (null) john is arriving late: (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:396)ealized as (cid:858)that(cid:859) o(cid:396) (cid:374)ull. I o(cid:396)de(cid:396)ed (cid:894)(cid:374)ull(cid:895) joh(cid:374) to a(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:448)e ea(cid:396)ly. (cid:894)(cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e te(cid:374)sed(cid:895) I begged for john to arrive early for, null. [+q] (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s the tp is a (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) (cid:894)aski(cid:374)g, is joh(cid:374) a(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:448)i(cid:374)g late? (cid:895); diff tha(cid:374) (cid:858)i thi(cid:374)k(cid:859) I wondered why john is arriving late. if null, need a question element before null c. I wondered whether to leave early: theta grid wonder. What (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:396)e good (cid:449) (cid:858)say(cid:859: that [-q, +finite, null [-q, +fin, if [+q, +fin]