Keywords
- L322.4 S02
Intermediate Syntax
Week
4: Voice, Aspect, R elevance, and Tense
Nouns marked as
[-Case_Inh]
- Case Filter:
- *NP if NP is no Case and has
phonetic content. (Chomsky 1981)
- This is predictable from the
principles at hand.
- NPs marked as [-Case_Inh] which
means that they need a value.
- If a feature has no value,
the sentence will crash.
Splitting
- Default for all verbal operators
given on this page.
- Exceptions are marked in the
lexical entry for each verb.
Voice
- Operator
- host, bound
- V is host
- Feature copying downward --
targeting
- links and chains
- V marked as [+Case_Inh, +Nom]
Aspect
- Operator
- host, bound
- V as host
- links and chains
- Feature copying downward --
targeting
Relevance
- Operator
- host, bound
- V is host
- Feature copying downward -
targeting
Tense
- Operator
- host; bound
- V is host
- Feature copying downward -
targeting
- V assigns [-Nom] Case.
Combinine the above.
- T subcategorizes R
- R subcategorizes Asp
- Asp subcategorizes Vc
- Vc subcategorizes V
- T - R - Asp - Vc - V
Strategies
- Copy feature (filling in blank)
- Copy feature bundle to targeted
host
- Insert a dummy.
Lexical Entries
- lexical entries contain information about
a word (or phrase) that is not predictable.
- feature system (which we usually write
out in CAPs rather than features)
- part of speech
- phonemic form of word
- orthographic form of word (if a written
language)
- theta roles assigned
- subcategorizaion (most likely related
to above, see Keywords 5)
- semantic form (ignored here)
- Any irregular forms (usually morphological
and phonological)
Keywords
322
Course
outline 322
This page last updated
6 FE 02.