WH movement 1 Oct. 15, 2012 – Day 19 Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane...
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WH movement 1Oct. 15, 2012 – Day 19Introduction 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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ReviewEx. 4.2
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WH-MOVEMENTRadford §5.1-2
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INDUCTIVE INTRODUCTION
Normal vs. echo questions1a) What languages can you speak?2a) You can speak what languages?1b) Which one would you like?2b) You would like which one?1c) Who was she dating?2c) She was dating who?1d) Where are you going?2d) You are going where?
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WH QUESTION TREE (5.3)1
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TP
T’PRNshe
AuxPTAf3sPast
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PRNwho
was+Af3sPast+
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PRNwho
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Note that Radford does not put ‘was’ in Aux.
SOME DETAILS Evidence that the Wh-phrase is in the specifier of
CP Belfast English (4) & spontaneous speech (6)
4a) I wonder which dish that they picked.4b) They didn’t know which model that we had discussed.6a) %I wonder what kind of party that they have in mind.6b) *I wonder what that they have in mind.
In other varieties of English, these sentences violate the Complementizer Condition:An overt complementizer cannot have an overt specifier in the superficial structure of the sentence.
Clause typing Assume that every clause must be identified as a
certain type. A clause is typed as interrogative if it contains an
interrogative head or specifier.
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OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS THAT MOVE A WH-PHRASE
7a) He hadn’t realized what a fool he was making of himself. (relative clause)7b) She is someone who you can trust. (relative clause)7c) It is bigger than I expected it to be. (comparative clause)7d) Ames was a spy, as the FBI eventually discovered. (as clause)7e) Syntax is tough to understand. (tough clause)
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WH-MVT AS COPYING & DELETIONRadford §5.3
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Hypothesis
Copy = trace or trace copy
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EVIDENCE FOR THE COPY
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QPwhich picture of himself
PICTURE REFLEXIVE
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TP
T’DetPø Jim
TAf3sPast
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QPwhich
picture of himself
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T’
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wonder
TP
DetPø Joe
TAf3sPast
NEXT TIMEContinue WH movement
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