{"id":246,"date":"2008-12-03T21:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blog\/lx522f08\/2008\/12\/03\/hw9-what-to-do-with-do\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:27:33","slug":"hw9-what-to-do-with-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/2008\/12\/03\/hw9-what-to-do-with-do\/","title":{"rendered":"HW9: What to do with do"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten a number of questions about how to handle the do<\/em> that shows up in a couple of the homework problems.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal. Check the textbook, p. 192, where you will find the Pronouncing Tense Rule<\/em>. It says:<\/p>\n

(160) Pronouncing Tense Rule (PTR)
\nIn a chain (T[tense], v<\/em>[u<\/em>Infl:tense]), pronounce the tense features on v<\/em> if v<\/em> is the head of T’s sister.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking up a bit on the page, a chain<\/em> is “an object which is formed by an Agree operation…when T checks tense features with little v<\/em>, T and v<\/em> are in a chain.”<\/p>\n

This comes back in the discussion of Did Medea poison Jason?<\/em> on pp. 341-2.<\/p>\n

From the class handouts, look at handout #6a<\/a> on pages 7-8. It’s also contained on handout #8a<\/a> on pages 2-3. Handout #10a<\/a> at the top of page 4 has an example of a yes-no question with did.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think there actually isn’t an example of a wh<\/em>-question with do<\/em> on the handouts, but the principle is the same as in the situations I mentioned above.<\/p>\n

Basically, the way we are thinking about this is as a pronunciation<\/em> rule. So do<\/em> isn’t actually in the tree. It’s rather like what we said about the of<\/em> that represents of<\/em>-case. If the conditions for the Pronouncing Tense Rule are met, then T is pronounced as an inflected do<\/em>. That is, intuitively, if T winds up “far away” from the v<\/em> (and T valued the [u<\/em>Infl:] feature of v<\/em>), then T gets pronounced as do<\/em> and v<\/em> is pronounced uninflected. T is “far away” when, e.g., T’s sister is NegP, or when T has moved to C. You don’t really need to write do<\/em> anywhere in the tree, though if you do write it somewhere, it should presumably be basically as a pronunciation of T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten a number of questions about how to handle the do that shows up in a couple of the homework problems. Here’s the deal. Check the textbook, p. 192, where you will find the Pronouncing Tense Rule. It says: (160) Pronouncing Tense Rule (PTR) In a chain (T[tense], v[uInfl:tense]), pronounce the tense features on …<\/p>\n

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