LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ditransitive Verb, Infinitive
26 Oct 2016
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Lecture 6 practice ?s from lec 5: jennifer asked me if i watched the whole game last night. Me" is a compliment, because it must be adjacent to the verb, and can be passivized ([i] was asked by jen . ) Apply syntactic tests: passivization, did-so: jen asked me [if i watched the whole game last night], and bob did so too. Asked" is ditransitive; it takes 2 compliments therefor we need 2 t-bars under the vp. Whole cp = compliment: the government hopes to reduce the deficit by cutting its expenses. Draw a tp, find the verb, find the subject. To reduce the deficit this is the cp. It cannot be the gov"t", it"s already the subject for hopes". However, it is also the subject of to reduce"; therefore, pro is the second subject. Passivization: [to reduce the deficit] was hoped by the gov"t by cutting its expenses. (test. [by cutting its existence] = pp with imbedded tp.
