LING 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ditransitive Verb, Intransitive Verb, Thematic Relation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 371
• Professor: Junko Shimoyama

Document Summary

For the midterm, we will have to know what motivated linguists to revise the binding theory several times. Have our almost final tree: now look at relations on the tree. We need to know the steps that led us to the final theory that we have today. Need to have a notion of semantic relations between predicates and arguments: This means that the system generates ungrammatical sentences. In a transitive verb like to hit, the complement would be the bus in the sentence the car hit the bus. In a ditransitive verb where the vp is v dp pp, the dp as well as the pp would both be considered complements. Complements: things that occur as the sister of a head (cid:523)daughter of x(cid:495)(cid:524) called an argument an argument that the transitive verb takes. The term (cid:498)argument(cid:499) covers a little bit of a broader ground that simply.