LING 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lexical Verb, Clitic, Complementizer
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Head movement: auxiliary verbs raise and adjoin to i0, creating a complex head. Perf0 vp if more than one auxiliary is present, only the highest one will raise to i0. This movement is usually called the in - to-comp rule, while the movement of a verb from vp to in ection is known as v-to-in . The in -to-comp movement is obligatory in certain types of sentences, e. g. , in questions. (8: they could have left, could they have left? c. Swedish: auxiliaries don"t raise in embedded clauses (they appear to the right of negation). (9) om whether whether she hasn"t bought the book" inte not hon she har has k opt bought boken book-the. Properties of move in general: move is always to a c-commanding position, move is uniform": heads move to a head position and phrases to a phrasal (xp) position. Head movement is further restricted by a locality condition (10) head movement constraint (hmc) travis 1984.