Introduction to Syntax Session 1

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WH-Movement in German • The same holds for German. Wen hat Maria __ angerufen? Who(m) has Maria ring-up? ‘Who(m) did Maria call?’ • Embedded question: Ich weiß, wen Maria ___ angerufen hat? *Ich weiß, wen dass die Maria ___ angerufen hat. Ich weiß, dass die Maria den Peter angerufen hat. who • So far it seems that wh-words and complementizers are in complementary distribution. • (Very naïve) explanatory guess: They target the same position. 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 56 that
WH-Movement in Bavarian • But there are languages/dialects that actually allow for complementizers and fronted wh-words at the same time. • Bavarian German is such a language. I woaß ned wos dass –ma toa soin. I know not what that -we do should ‘I don’t know what we should do.’ I woaß ned wann dass da Xaver kummt. I know not when that the Xaver comes ‘I don’t know when Xaver will come.’ • This shows clearly that wh-phrases actually do not move to the same position as complementizers. 27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 57
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Introduction to Syntax Session 1 In
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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 and 12: How do we acquire languages? • We
Page 13 and 14: Subconscious knowledge • We have
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--
Page 39 and 40: • E.g. X-bar theory says that com
Page 41 and 42: Expletives • There are verbs that
Page 43 and 44: Presentation Topic 4 Paper for pres
Page 45 and 46: Word Order • Languages exhibit di
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Page 51 and 52: Embedded Clauses in German • As p
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Page 59 and 60: Empirical Evidence for Traces • I
Page 61 and 62: Presentation Topic 9 Pullum’s Pap
Page 63 and 64: Crosslinguistic Evidence for Little
Page 65 and 66: Presentation Topic 10 Little vP and
Page 67 and 68: Raising and Control • Raising and
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Page 71 and 72: Syntactic Frameworks • Finally, w
Page 73 and 74: Session Planning 01 October 16 Intr
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