LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Microsoft Powerpoint
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Modifier: specific name given to a specific structural position. She will keep the papers and home and he will keep the papers at school. = he will do so at school. It is not a constituent because there is no node that excludes keep the papers from the rest. Keep and the papers are constituents, but not keep the papers . There is no reason to separate keep the papers from at school . We are embedding a sentence into another sentence. **v takes a vp complement (vp within vp) Sleeping is a vp within be sleeping , another vp. What we have arrived at based on english data. More on malagasy word order ( word-by-word gloss) ( translation) Question: given the x-bar schema we hypothesized for malagasy, which is the predicted form for the book" in the language: ny boky, boky ny. Because the specifier occurs to the right, according to the syntax tree.
