Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Complementizer, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Surface Roughness

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

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Modal auxillary: will, could, can, should, could, shall, must, may, might. Intransitive verbs: only takes a subject, no obligatory complement, ex run, eat, sit, you can just say i ran . Transitive verbs: takes a subject and one object, ex. Ditransitive verbs: takes a subject and two objects (show two complements, ex. Give: you have to give something to someone. Constituents, or phrases: substitution the man can be substituted with he . In the car can be substituted with there : movement in the car, the man can eat moving the phrase. [tp[np the man] can [vp eat [pp in [np the car]]]: coordination. Grouping together two or more categories with the help of a conjunction. Any level can be coordinated (a head, an x", a xp) Never [v"[v" drink alcohol] and [v" drive a car] [np[np the man] and [np the child] the category of the structure is identical to the category of the conjoined elements.