LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Childes, Phrase Structure Rules

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Jon Gajewski

Document Summary

A transformation a syntactic rule that takes the output of the phrase structure rules, and rearranges/transforms that output into a new output. You can take a normal sentence structure word order and by applying a transformation you can turn it into a question. Transformation: is john running? moves the head from one position to another. We need a theory that does not rely on linear order. Because the linear order doesn t work in all cases(low generalization) Matrix ip- the primary ip of the sentence. Embedded ip- embedded in the matrix of the sentence. Embedded clause one long phrase that forms part of the subject of the sentence. Move the auxiliary verb of the main clause. The second definition of head movement is called a structure dependent rule. The transformation is defined in terms of the hierarchical structure of the sentence.