LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Revised Version, Itil, Dummy Pronoun
21 Nov 2016
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This allows us to draw trees for most sentences of any language. X-bar theory is too powerful, unconstrained; it can generate ungrammatical sentences such as (2b) and (3b): (1) (2) (3) a. By looking at selectional restrictions on complements and subjects. We want instructions for restrictions to give to x-bar theory to constrain ungrammatical sentences as we"ve seen above. X-bar theory should not allow for this: c-selection, i. e. categorical selection, s-selection, i. e. semantic selection, c-selection. Often called subcategorization, c-selection determines the number and type of complements that a verb (or another category) may take. a verb can take 0, 1 or 2 complements: number of complements, type of complements: Ditransitive verbs: ask/demander, put/mettre, give/donner, tell/raconter (c-selection=2) (4) What do we do with (5b), a variant of english (5a)? send: v love: v. [this morning]; an adjunct, is not a complementary dp. This is a etter representation to encompass all possibilities. [__dp,pp/dp: c-selection also determines which complement is optional or not.
