LINGUIST 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homophony, Homophone, Logical Consequence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

Dative alternation: mary gave tom her umbrella, mary gave her umbrella to tom, she sneezed. His aunt (indirect object: oblique, object of a preposition. Which string is a constituent: syntactic units found in tree structures, fall under one node, substitution test and movement test. Inanimate, cannot choose to participate, has a role in bringing event about: instrument, cause. Instrument is used by the agent (like a key) Southwest asia, and much of central asia: most major languages of europe, south asia, spoken by approximately 3 billion native speakers, chinese languages, sino-tibetan c. Passive deep and surface structure trees: a thief stole the painting vs, the painting was stolen (by the thief) c. d. 18: move operation is used to move the np into the subject position of tp. How is ss derived from ds: deep structure is formed by merge operation, surface structure results from applying whatever move.