Periphery of the sentence, cont. V.4: pp. 3403, Ex. 13, 4

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Periphery of the sentence, cont.V.4 pp. 340-3,
Ex. 13, 4

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• ANTH 359/759
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Reviewcf. (17)
phrases
heads
CP
C'
NP
C
IP
a. how much can I can afford how
much?b. who are you are going with
who?c. (that) there are so many smart girlsd.
if it's going to be milese. whether one Tube
stop is going to be 110 yardsf. if I had known
you were comingg. had I had known you were
coming
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Review (Ex. 10)

NP
CP
NP
NP who
C'
C
IP

• Who has skipped the SpecCP filled with where.
• The clause should be bad, but it is not.

nice people
I'
NP leaders
Infl do
VP
VP
Adv not
V'
NP leaders
CP
V know
C'
AdvP where
IP
C
I'
NP Ø
Infl to
VP
VP
AdvP where
V'
NP Ø
NP who
V put
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Ex. 13, pp. 365-6Movement from adjunct clauses

• Compare the movement of relative pronouns that we
  saw in Ex 12, repeated as (1), to the movement of
  interrogative pronouns in (2)
• 1a) Bernie is the type of man who when you shake
  hands with him, it's a deal.
• 2a) Who would it be a deal when you shake hands
  with?
• 1b) They say he was a workaholic and that work
  was a drug which when he couldn't have it he got
  depressed.
• 2b) Which drug did he get depressed when he
  couldn't have?
• Movement of both types of pronoun appears to
  compete for the same intervening SpecCP.

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5.4

• The periphery of non-finite clauses

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For as a conjunction

• Traditionally, for is considered a preposition.
• However, in sentences like (a-b), it seems a
  little different
• a) He hates for you to call him Ollie. (57a)
• a') He hates that you call him Ollie. (58a)
• b) He intended for Endrina to join him as a
  runner. (57b)
• b') He intended that Endrina join him as a
  runner. (58b)
• We will consider for in for NP to VP to be a
  complementizer
• He hates CP for IP you to VP call him Ollie

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Add for to our list of C's
phrases
heads
CP
C'
NP
C
IP
a. how much can I can afford how
muchb. who are you are going with
whoc. that there are so many pretty girlsd.
if it's going to be milese. whether one Tube
stop is going to be 110 yardsf. if I had known
you were comingg. had I had known you were
comingh. for you to call him Ollie
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Whether

• Non-finite whether should work just like finite
  whether
• Bill doesn't know whether Hillary should run.
• Bill doesn't know whether to run.
• Analysis
• Bill doesn't know CP whether IP Hillary should
  VP Hillary run
• Bill doesn't know CP whether IP Ø
  to VP Ø run

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Interrogative pronouns

• Non-finite interrogative pronouns should work
  just like finite interrogative pronouns
• Bill doesn't know who Hillary should trust.
• Bill doesn't know who to trust.
• Analysis
• Bill doesn't know CP who IP Hillary should VP
  Hillary trust who
• Bill doesn't know CP who IP Ø to
  VP Ø trust who

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Add to our list of CPs
phrases
heads
CP
C'
NP
C
IP
a. how much can I can afford how much?b.
who are you are going with who?c. (that) there
are so many smart girlsd. if it's going to be
milese. whether one Tube stop is going to be
110 yardsf. if I had known you were comingg.
had I had known you were comingh. for you to
call him Olliei. how smart Ø you are how smart!
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Ex. 4, p. 357Exclamatives

• What is the function of the underlined
  constituent What a picture of doom and gloom in
  (1)?
• It is the object of paint.
• Where is it structurally?
• In SpecCP
• Note dialectal What a picture of doom and gloom
  that you paint, where that marks Comp overtly.
• What kind of clause does it introduce?
• An exclamative clause.
• Is there SAI?
• No.
• Are (2-5) similar?
• Yes, except that (4) is embedded and (5) has how.

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• V.5 and relevant exercises