LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ditransitive Verb, Verb Phrase, Uzlovoy Module

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Module 1b: closed class categories: nouns, verbs, and adjectives are open-class categories (can have new words added, also called content words or lexical categories, closed-class categories, function words or non-lexical categories. Module 2a: tree diagrams: appear before nouns, behave like the and a, precede adjectives and adverbs, conjoin two phrases of the same. Indicate how much category: appear with verbs. Module 3a: phrases and sentences: every sentence is a tp, t head takes vp complement, specifier of tp is an np: the subject, what goes in t head, modal auxiliary or tense feature [-past] or [+past] If the complement is the wrong type, a sentence with an x-bar structure can still be wrong. Module 4a: move: complementizer head can have +q features (that vs if, english yes-no questions, will the leafs win, when the thing moves, it leaves behind the trace, t, merge deep structure, move surface structure.