Introduction to Syntax Session 1

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Language is creative • Language is creative. The dancing hippo saw the rabbit in the kitchen. • Human languages are recursive. • Dena likes horses • Clarissa knows that [Dena likes horses] • Anne thinks that [Clarissa knows that [Dena likes horses]] • Christian said that [Anne thinks that [Clarissa knows that [Dena likes horses]]] • etc. • Language is infinite. 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 12
Subconscious knowledge • We have subconscious knowledge about our grammar: a) Who(m) did you say Paul hit ___? b) Who(m) did you say that Paul hit ___ ? c) Who did you say ___ hit Bill? d) *Who did you say that ___ hit Bill? Wen hat Maria __ angerufen? Who(m) has Maria ring-up? ‘Who(m) did Maria call?’ *Wen weißt du, dass Maria __ angerufen hat? Who know you that Maria called has Example in the original language Aligned Gloss: A word by word translation (most useful line) Loose English Translation: For information purposes only 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 13
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Page 3 and 4: The Plan • The topics that are di
Page 5 and 6: Homework • Homework exercises are
Page 7 and 8: Presentations • The final version
Page 9 and 10: What is Syntax? • The scientific
Page 11: How do we acquire languages? • We
Page 15 and 16: Language as an instinct • Noam Ch
Page 17 and 18: Presentation Topic 1 Nature versus
Page 19 and 20: Parts of Speech • We will go thro
Page 21 and 22: Lexical Ambiguity • Words can hav
Page 23 and 24: umfahren has two meanings: Lexical
Page 25 and 26: Morpho-syntactic Ambiguity • An E
Page 27 and 28: Syntactic Structure • Ambiguities
Page 29 and 30: Parsing Preferences • Unexpectedl
Page 31 and 32: Garden Path Sentences Peter sagt, d
Page 33 and 34: Presentation Topic 2 Overview Artic
Page 35 and 36: Picture NPs • NPs of the “Xself
Page 37 and 38: Presentation Topic 3 Picture-NPs--
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Page 41 and 42: Expletives • There are verbs that
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Page 51 and 52: Embedded Clauses in German • As p
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Page 55 and 56: DP- and WH-Movement • Not only ve
Page 57 and 58: WH-Movement in Bavarian • But the
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Crosslinguistic Evidence for Little
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Presentation Topic 10 Little vP and
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Raising and Control • Raising and
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Dena is reluctant to leave. ⇒ tha
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Syntactic Frameworks • Finally, w
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Session Planning 01 October 16 Intr
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