LINGUIS 101 1st Edition Lecture 20 Syntax 2 continued X and XP coordination Coordination can happen either at the head X level or phrase XP level o Ns my friend and colleague o NPs my friend and your brother o VPs go to the store and buy some milk o Vs wash and peel the fruit PS rules for coordination o XP XP conj XP o X X conj X Questions Yes no questions o Can be answered with yes or no Did you see that movie yet Can we meet tomorrow Will you be home on Friday Wh questions o Include a question word such as who what how why etc o Cannot be answered with yes or no What movies did you see Who gave you a lift How was it Which one do you want A problem for our theory Our syntactic phrase structure rules can generate only basic statements Questions have different word order and we can t generate them without our PS rule Subject aux inversion Yes no questions involve a process called subject auxiliary inversion in English the aux and the subject are reordered o Maggie can talk can Maggie talk o He will be home will he be home Movement rule A movement rule moves a word or phrase somewhere else in the tree o Subj aux inversion In a matrix question move Aux to C o Step 1 create the basic sentence Maggie can talk o Step 2 move Aux to C Can Maggie talk Questions in other languages French like English has Subj Aux inversion in questions Some languages like Japanese do no movement in a question but have a special question particle Q particle instead
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