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"It" referring to [+wh] phrases and the syntax of "as to"
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1a) It's up to you whether you actually leave.
2a) It's up to you which path you take.
3a) *? It's up to you for whom the bell tolls.
4a) * It's up to you the path you ...
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Do nouns in simple apposition semantically unpack to predicate nominatives in English?
A Koine Greek grammar states that nouns in simple apposition are semantically understood as predicate nominatives.
So, "Paul the apostle" unpacks to "Paul is the apostle" and "the apostle is Paul" ...
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What do features ±F and ±N mean?
Could anybody please help me understand what the [±F] and [±N] features mean? What do they stand for, I have no idea .... (The article elucidates in terms of GB theory)
Given these observations, ...
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Two questions about Icelandic (syntax)
The following sentence is from Icelandic language:
Mér vir›ast tNP [hestarnir vera seinir]
meDAT seemPL the-horsesNOM be slow
‘It seems to me that the horses are slow.'
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Is "in favour of John" a resultative here?
In the sentence, "The judge settled the dispute in favour of John", is "in favour of John" a resultative? I am being asked to explain what this string shows about the verb "settle".
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Why is "woman" in "the woman teacher" an adjunct while "literature" in "the literature teacher" a complement?
Is it because we cannot say "teacher of woman" but we can say "teacher of literature"?
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Questions about complementizers (at least, I think they're complementizers...)
I would like to know – there is a grammatical term for the function of the dash in this sentence, is that right?
English doesn’t have a word like that or whether that can replace the dash in that ...
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Two meanings of "Someone believes everyone to be invited"
Carnie claims in his syntax book that the sentence
Someone believes everyone to be invited
has two meanings. I can see only one (when the existential quantifier has scope over universal one: when ...
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Is "be set to" a subject-to-subject raising predicate?
Consider the sentence "Conservative Party (is) Set to Win (a) Majority".
Is it right that "set" in this case is a subject-to-subject raising? I don't think "set" has an agent theta role. However, all ...
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Diacope Confusion
I'm a little confused by diacope as a rhetorical feature. All examples I can find are short simple sentences "drill baby drill" for example.
I'm trying to work out what the correct term would be to ...
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Problem Set Solutions to 'Semantics in Generative Grammar' (Heim & Kratzer)?
I'm working through Heim and Kratzer's 1998 textbook 'semantics in generative grammar' (Blackwell), which I understand is fairly standard for university level courses on semantics, but I can't find ...
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Past Participial Relatives are the sourse of Participial Adjectives, why?
I came across this statement in a work (Ph.D. Dissertation, p.158) by Asier Alcázar Estela in which he assumes that the Past Participial Relatives are the source of the Participial Adjectives. And he ...
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What is this method of drawing syntax trees?
I'm taking a course in generative grammar and I've reached a point where I don't know what's happening because I missed one class. Anyway, last time my tutor drew tree diagrams that I found a bit ...
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Phrase structure trees for different languages
I am trying to get to the bottom of the difference between (1) and (2) below, and how the intended meanings would be reflected in a phrase structure tree:
(1) If you think that $100 is too little you ...
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Generative vs Constructionist POV on Imperative's null subject
How might a constructionist approach to Imperative sentences respond to a Generative frammework in regards to an implied subject (;subject-less' sentences.
(Based on the focus point from the ...
