LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: English Compound, Principle Of Compositionality, Grumpy Cat
26 Jan 2015
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Deep structure: you can see the snow: det (determiner) = things like the . Ip = inflectional phrase (always branches in three directions to np, i and vp) Information questions (aka wh-questions): who, what, where, when, why, how, which. Back to english: there"s still that other type of question, ex: what do the students often eat, the students often eat chocolate. In addition to do-support and inversion, the wh-word moves: we call this, uncreatively, wh-movement, and have it land as the specifier of cp. Summing up: we have seen that questions are formed by applications of move, this interacts with the other movement operation we already introduced. Compositionality: a lot of contemporary research in semantics is built on one fundamental idea: The principle of compositionality: the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meaning of its component parts, and the manner in which they are arranged.
