LINB06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Complementary Distribution, Kru Languages, Rule Of Inference
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According to x-(cid:271)a(cid:396) theo(cid:396)(cid:455), a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t is the (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)t to v (cid:894)siste(cid:396) to v, daughte(cid:396) of v(cid:859)(cid:895: no specifier or adjunct can intervene between the complement and the head. Modern irish, which is a verb-subject-object (vso) word order language: In this sentence, the subject (a specifier) intervenes between the verb and the object; this sentence cannot be generated by x-bar theory (cid:862) ou(cid:448)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) ofte(cid:374) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:448)e(cid:374)es (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271) a(cid:374)d the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t. If (cid:858)sou(cid:448)e(cid:374)t(cid:859) is a(cid:374) adju(cid:374)(cid:272)t it is appea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a head a(cid:374)d its (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: x-(cid:271)a(cid:396) theo(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t d(cid:396)a(cid:449) the t(cid:396)ee fo(cid:396) this. X-bar theory under-generates because it does not produce all the possible grammatical sentences in a language. Transformation take the output of x-bar rules and change them into different trees. X-bar theory and the lexicon conspire together to generate trees. This conspiracy is called the base: the result of this tree generation is a level we call d-structure (this used to be called.
