LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Microsoft Powerpoint, Adverb
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Some possible launching sites (a. k. a. the d-structure position) of wh-movement. I wonder [at which party mary will wear the hat]. Mary will wear the hat at your party. See lecture notes part 6 for one motivation behind this structural analysis (though it"s beyond the scope of this course) [what] is somehow connected to the object position of the verb [to wear]. Types of errors frequently made by learners of english or french as a foreign language. Fr: elle toujours travaille la maison. Fr: elle ne travaille pas la maison. Language variation: source of variation in v-to-i movement. Variation in v-to-i movement in english and french. [work] cannot undergo v-to-i movement because it is not a non-modal auxiliary, it is a main verb. **french main verbs do v-to-i movement, but english main verbs do not. Applying v-to-i movement to the main verb gives you french.
