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Head movementOct. 3, 2012 – Day 15Introduction to Syntax
ANTH 3590/7590
Harry Howard
Tulane University
Course management
http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ We need to spend our $150 from the
Provost’s Undergraduate Activities Fund.
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HEAD MOVEMENTRadford §4
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§4.2 T-TO-C MOVEMENT My version of (1)
A: What did you ask? B: Whether you will marry me. A: What? B: Will you marry me?
Do you like Radford’s sentence? A: What did you ask? B: If you will marry me.
Interim summary: a question can be introduced by an interrogative complementizer or an inverted auxiliary. But not both:
A: What did you ask? B: Whether will you marry me?
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WHETHER VS. T-TO-C MOVEMENT, 1ST TRY
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TP
T’PRNyou
VPTwill
Vmarry
PRNme
CP
Cwhethe
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C TP
T’PRNyou
VPTwill
Vmarry
PRNme
CP
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will
WHY MOVE?
Head position strength and attractiveness An interrogative C is strong and so must be
filled by an overt word, either a complementizer (subordinating conjunction) or an auxiliary verb.
A null complementizer attracts an auxiliary verb to a strong C.
Perhaps C carries a tense feature [TNS ø] which must be realized on an tensed verb, which is to say that [TNS ø] is an affix.
So the tensed auxiliary verb moves up and adjoins to C, causing the deletion of itself in T and the merger and deletion of [TNS ø] in C – see the following slide.
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T-TO-C MOVEMENT AS ADJUNCTION OF T TO TENSE IN C
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TP
T’PRNyou
VPTwill
Vmarry
PRNme
CP
C[TNS]
ø
PRNme
C TP
T’PRNyou
VP
Vmarry
CP
Twill
A SIMPLIFICATION OF THE ADJUNCTION TO SHOW ITS MORPHOLOGICAL RESULT
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TP
T’PRNyou
VP
Vmarry
CP
Cwill+ø
PRNme
C TP
T’PRNyou
VP
Vmarry
CP
Twill
§4.3 MOVEMENT AS COPYING & DELETION
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PRNme
TP
T’PRNyou
VP
Vmarry
CP
Cwill+ø
What would happen if will were to vanish from TP after moving to C, as in (8) below?
has no head
has a single branch
COPY THEORY OF MOVEMENT
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SOME EVIDENCE FOR COPYING IN T-TO-C MVT
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V-TO-T MOVEMENTRadford §4.4
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Elizabethan English
20a) She shall not see me. 22b) Didst thou not hear somebody? 24a) I care not for her.
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TP
T’PRNshe
VPTshall
ADVnot
VP
CP
Cø
PRNme
Vmarry
POSITION OF NOT: VP ADVERB
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V-TO-T MOVEMENT
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TP
T’PRNI
VPTAf1sgPr
ADVnot
VP
CP
Cø
PPVcare
Pfor
PRNher
Tense must be strong in Elizabethan English and weak in modern
English
care+
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