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Summary Description Rys1.jpg English: Subjacency principle in example Date 20 April 2013, 13:11:43 Source Chomsky's Universal Grammar. 2007. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Author Cook, Vivian J. and Mark Newson Licensing I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creativ...

Wh-movement

In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting or wh-extraction or long-distance dependency ) concerns special rules of syntax, observed in many languages around the world, involving the placement of interrogative words. The special interrogatives, whatever the language, are known within linguistics as wh-words because most interrogative words in the English language start with a wh- ; for example, who(m) , whose , what , which , etc. Wh -words are used to form questions, and can also occur in relative clauses. In languages with wh -movement, sentences or clauses with a wh-word show a special word order that has the wh -word (or phrase containing the wh -word) appear at the front of the sentence or clause ( Who do you think about? ) instead of in a more canonical position later in the sentence ( I think about you ) The opposite is called wh in situ . Wh -movement often results in a discontinuity, and in that regard, it is one of (at least) four widely acknowledged di...

John R. Ross

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For other people named John Ross, see John Ross (disambiguation). John R. "Haj" Ross John R. Ross in 2011 Born ( 1938-05-07 ) May 7, 1938 Boston, Massachusetts Alma mater MIT [1] (PhD) University of Pennsylvania (AM) Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (linguistics courses) Freie Universität (general studies courses) Yale University (AB) Known for islands, pied piping, sluicing, "squib" Scientific career Fields Syntax, Generative grammar, Generative semantics, Poetics Institutions University of North Texas, MIT Doctoral advisor Noam Chomsky Notable students Richard Kayne John Robert " Haj " Ross (born May 7, 1938) is a poet and linguist. He played a part in the development of generative semantics (as opposed to interpretive semantics) along with George Lakoff, James D. McCawley, and Paul Postal. [2] He was a professor of linguistics at MIT from 1966–1985 and has worked in Brazil, Singapore and British Columb...

Determiner phrase

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Examples In the determiner phrases below, the determiners are in boldface : a little dog, the little dogs (indefinite or definite articles) my little dog, your little dogs (possessives) this little dog, those little dogs (demonstratives) every little dog, each little dog, no dog (quantifiers) In linguistics, a determiner phrase ( DP ) is a type of phrase posited by some theories of syntax. The head of a DP is a determiner, as opposed to a noun. For example in the phrase the car , the is a determiner and car is a noun; the two combine to form a phrase, and on the DP-analysis, the determiner the is head over the noun car . The existence of DPs is a controversial issue in the study of syntax. The traditional analysis of phrases such as the car is that the noun is the head, which means the phrase is a noun phrase (NP), not a determiner phrase. Beginning in the mid 1980s, an alternative analysis arose that posits the determiner as the head, which makes the...