LING 100 Lecture 4: LING100Week213January2017
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The little boa t will sail to alaska apparently. Three types of evidence: movement phenomena: putting things in a different order, coordination: using conjunctions like and/ or to put two things together, pronominalization: turning something into a pronoun, group of words into a single word. Movement: basic and non-basic order, basic order: s-v-o (subject-verb-object) i. ii. Vp=> v -np: other orders are possible: i. Shoes, her best friend will buy-: will her best friend-buy shoes, these variations are not produced by ps rules, movement rules make these variations, movement rules apply to units larger than words, active/passive alternation i. ii. iii. The process: begins with active s-v-o, change form to passive: Indirect object movement: sue mailed the package to her friend, sue mailed her friend the package, the process: i. The direct and indirect object switch places: what doesn"t happen: movement of the noun by itself i. Movement rules give a wider range of orders.
