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Task 1: English Syntactic Structures
Under (NP)
(P)
the bridge
(Det) (N)
• Fell into the pond
fell (PP)
(V)
into (NP)
(P)
the pond
(Det) (N)
• This silly picture of Ai
(NP)
Ai
(N)
• Pat loves Robin passionately
(S)
(NP) (VP)
(NP) (VP)
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(NP) (VP)
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Robin talked (PP)
(N) (V)
to (NP)
(P)
The verb put requires 3 arguments, which bears precisely the clause-external
theta role of agent, and the clause-internal theta roles of theme and goal.
NP Aux NP Aux VP
N has N V NP
Wh-Movement
Task 4: Wanna-Contraction and Wh-Movement
Wh-trace account
- ‘Wanna’ contraction is blocked whenever there is a
phonetically empty trace of a wh-word located between
the want and the infinitival to. This circumstance occur
whenever there is a main clause with the verb ‘want’
taking an infinitival clause as its complement, and a
question is formed which queries the identity of the
subject of the infinitival clause
Task 4: Wanna-Contraction and Wh-Movement
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