q9 answers 1-4 i. indicate whether the italicized material is a control or raising predicate. (4...
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Q9 ANSWERS 1-4
I. Indicate whether the italicized material is a control or raising predicate. (4 pts)
1. She is unlikely to scare them. a) controlb) raising
2. She is keen to scare them.a) controlb) raising
3. She is on the verge of scaring them.a) controlb) raising
4. She is reluctant to scare them.a) controlb) raising
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Q9 ANSWERS 5-95. In the sentence “I am happy”, what is the probe?
a) Ib) amc) happyd) none of the above
6. In the sentence “I am happy”, what is the goal (of the probe)?a) Ib) amc) happyd) none of the above
7. Which of the following is a phi feature?a) Tenseb) Personc) Cased) all of the above
8. Which of the following is an uninterpretable feature?a) Tenseb) Personc) Cased) none of the above
9. Which type of feature must be deleted?a) valuedb) unvaluedc) interpretabled) uninterpretable
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Q9 ANSWER 10
10. What feature(s) does expletive there have?a) personb) person, numberc) person, number, cased) person, number, case, tense
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Agreement 3Nov 12, 2012 – Day 31Introduction 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. Final project
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AGREEMENT, CASE & A-MVTRadford §7.7-9
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AGREEMENT & A-MOVEMENTRadford §7.7
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Introduction
Recall that we postulated multiple agreement for expletive there in the passive voice, i.e. agreement with the complement of V.
So why can’t an active transitive verb agree with its complement?i. He has arrested them. (44)ii. *He have arrested them.
Because there must be agreement in accusative case between the transitive verb and its complement, which makes the complement’s phi features inactive after it takes place, see next slide.
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PRNhe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[Nom-Case]
PRNhe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[ -Case]
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PRNthem
[3-Pers][Pl-Num]
[ -Case]
An active/transitive clause (45)
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CP
TPCø
T’
VPTHAVE
[Past-Tns][ -Pers][ -Num]
[EPP]
Varrested
V'
Acc
3Pl
Nom
EPP & agreement in control infinitives§7.8
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Introduction
Assumptions about content of infinitival to null non-finite tense, [Nf-Tns] null phi features
Null case assignment (48) An unvalued case feature [on a pronoun] goal is
valued as null via agreement with a T probe carrying null tense.
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Tto
[Nf-Tns][ -Pers][ -Num]
[EPP]
PRNyou
[3-Pers][Pl-Num]
[ -Case]
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PRNPRO
[3-Pers][PL-Num]
[Null-Case]
PRNPRO
[3-Pers][Pl-Num]
[ -Case]
An infinitival control clause (50-51)they decided to help you
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CP
TP
T’
VP
Vhelp
V'
Acc
3Pl
Null
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EPP & person agreement in defective clauses§7.9
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Introduction
The infinitival to of raising/ECM/defective clauses has an EPP feature. See Radford for evidence
It also carries a person feature, but not a number feature. See Radford for evidence
Summary: Feature composition of T in English (60)i. T carries an EPP feature and a person feature in
all types of clauses.ii. T adds a number feature in CPs, so TPs do not
have one.
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PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[ -Case]
PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[ -Case]
Tto
[Nf-Tns][ -Pers]
[EPP]-------------------
An infinitival raising clause (62-5)She is likely to succeed.
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TPAdjlikely
T’
VP
Vsucceed
V'3
VP
Vbe
[Pres-Tns][ -Pers][ -Num]
TP
T’
Nom
3Sg
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PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[Nom-Case]Tbe
[Pres-Tns][ -Pers]
[ -Num][EPP]
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T[Pres-Tns][ -Pers]
[ -Num][EPP]
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PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[ -Case]
PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[ -Case]
Tto
[Nf-Tns][ -Pers]
[EPP]-------------------
A simpler infinitival raising clause (62-5)She seems to succeed.
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TP
T’
VP
Vsucceed
V'3
VP
Vseem
TP
T’
Nom
3Sg
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PRNshe
[3-Pers][Sg-Num]
[Nom-Case]
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CP
Cø
NEXT TIMEContinue §7
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