→ A: CP / null declarative complementiser B: CP / auxiliary do in C position cf. ... 4.7 Null C in finite clauses (85) Speaker A: I am feeling thirsty Speaker B: Do you feel like a Coke? ... → Elizabethan English / two steps of head movement(V→T→C) (57) CP ADV C’ OpYNQ C TP ø PRN T’ thou T VP
verbs don’t denote action state(like, know, think) ii) Nouns denote entities (car, cat, hill, John) →movement ... only grammatical function(doesn’t have any special meaning) (83) Economy Principle : Structures and operations ... →(a),(b): spoken language -non-finite null subject(non-finite무한의) (6) (a)We would like [you to stay]
a null spellout in the phonological component. (9) CP ADV C– ... or two steps in the A-movement, but before or simultaneously with further A-movement steps. ... and what is the nature of the grammatical operations by which its component words are combined together
Chapter 5 Head Movement 1. ... But, they haven't yet mastered copy-deletion operation. ... It means there is null something between we and have. Next, how can we derive?Can you swim?from?
operation is called passivisation. ... As you know, control infinitives have a particular kind of null pronomina ... The head of the movement chain is spelled-out. But the foot of the movement is deleted.