LINB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Active Voice, Determiner, Ditransitive Verb
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Lecture 4 - chapter 6: forget about all the rules. Because they are too many, and we want a simple and constrained system: psrs. Generate unconstrained syntactic tress: binary branching structures, multiple branching ones elsewhere. In english the complement is always adjacent to v: did-so (did-too) Replacement: it targets the verb and its complement, not the verb alone. In other words, it ca appear before an adjunct and not before a complement. ex. Jess loved the policeman intensely and susan did so half-heatedly: passivization. Passive voice: the policeman was kissed by jess. If you are a true complement you can be promoted to the subject position. Three tests: adjacency, one-replacement, and iteration: adjacency, the book of poems with a red cover b*. The book with a red cover of poems: one-replacement. Must include the complement not the adjunct, like do-so test: iteration: The syntactic representation of the pp complement of n.
