Course:LING300/Unit 2

Unit 2 focuses on detecting abstract syntax, and draws on material from Chapters 8 and 9 of Sportiche, Koopman & Stabler.

Local Selection

Core concepts relating to selection

Merge

first merge, external merge

Move

non-local selection, movement, movement dependency, displacement, remerge, internal merge, transformation, feature checking

detecting non-local selectional relations

detecting movement, detecting covariation, idiom chunks, Case distribution, existential there

A-movement: NP-movement, DP-movement, raising

A-bar movement: wh-movement, topicalization

head-movement: verb raising, V-to-T movement, T-to-C movement, Num-to-N movement, affix hopping

trace

t, ec, e, unpronounced copy

EPP

extended projection principle, subject, expletive insertion