LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Part Of Speech, Affix, Surface Roughness
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Linb06 lecture 8 head-to head movement. Introduction: consider the following sentences (1~2) from english & french, a. nicole often eats apples b. Nicole often eats apples" b. nicole mange souvent des pommes. Nicole often eats apples : applying x-bar theory. Adverb often is a degree adverb; it is generated in [spec, vp] Np: applies complement of v and it"s merged at v". The well-formedness of (1a) follows as well as the ungrammaticality of (1b) Souvent often is a degree adverb in [spec, vp] The pp des pommes apples true complement occurring next to v (off v": x-bar theory predicts (2a) to be well-formed/grammatical but it isn"t. The adverb intervenes between the verb and the object. X-bar can"t draw the tree for this sentence either. Distribution of negation: assumptions, not/pas heads a projection called negp. This projection is the complement of tp (off t") and dominates. All aux. in both languages precede neg, as does the main verb in french.
