LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture 7: Week 7 - Linguistics 1AA3 Textbook Readings

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

Week 7 textbook readings: paul always works -> grammatical (adverb follows the verb, *paul works always. Second sentence"s ungrammaticality is expected since the preverbal adverb "always" functions as a specifier and thus should occur to its left (as in a) In french, the equivalent adverb must follow the verb in french, even though specifiers in. French normally precede the head, as they do in english: why, the tense feature in the i category attracts the verb to the i position in french, just as the. Q feature can attract verbs to the c position in some languages. Verb raising transformation = raising (the verbs move upward in the tree: verb raising (french, move v to i. Inversion: move i to c, in english, only auxiliary verbs occur in i position, a. Will you t stay for supper: b. [cp should [ip the children have t have waited]: ungrammatical: non-modal auxiliary moves to c position.