LING204 Lecture 2: linguistic 204 (2)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING204
• Professor: Karsten Koch

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Anaphors: noun that ends with self / selves: an anaphor cannot be a subject, a. An anaphor must have an antecedent (sth. to refer to/always refer back to something) b. 1st sentence charlie punched himself" look for antecedent outside that boundary. ) Himself" subject to object to the verb believed" so no longer in the sub-clause. subject function more like object. If we take our rules seriously, then we have to say: himself" in (10) is not actually a subject. Or: himself" in (10) has actually escaped from its subordinate clause e. g. in nitival clauses are special in some way *bill"s sister punched himself. himself not in the subject position, complex subject, clause boundary bill"s sister" clause, anaphor sensitive to the subunit in the syntax, We uncovered some important concepts that we"ll be returning to as we go along: subjects(more generally:syntactic positions) gender, person, number, agreement, clause boundaries, in nitival clauses versus other embedded clauses.