LINGUIST 1ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Independent Clause, Dependent Clause, Tag Question

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1ZZ3
• Professor: Cassandra Chapman

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Constituent test: used to determine whether a string of words is a constituent or not. Replacement test: can the string of words be replaced with a pronoun (np) or with do/do so (vp). Movement test: can the string of words be moved around in the sentence and the meaning does not change. Coordination test: can the string of words be coordinated with a phrase of the same type. Ap, try replacing the string of words with another ap. Clause: a syntactic unit formed with np (subject) and vp (predicate). Sai final rule: yes-no questions in english are formed by inverting the element found in t with the syntactic subject. 1. rule for yes-no questions: t moving to the beginning. 2. subject-auxiliary inversion (sai): inverting the element found in t (aux or modal) with the syntactic subject. Sai correctly predicts that only the element is t inverts with the.