I’ve gotten a couple of questions about homework 6, here are some quick thoughts about them.<\/p>\n
First, yes, in the example tree, I provided an example that has a proper name. We actually still haven’t done proper names in class, but they’ll wind up looking like the example, with a null determiner that is specifically for proper names.<\/p>\n
There is also one null determiner in the sentences you are to draw, namely in (1), despite the fact that we only saw our first null determiner yesterday.<\/p>\n
This I think isn’t in the book, and it isn’t explicitly in the handouts although we talked through it, but a by<\/em>-phrase in a passive adjoins to PassP.<\/p>\n The textbook in its discussion of agreement between D and N uses the feature [u<\/em>num: ], but we’re using [u<\/em>phi: ] in class. Our version is more general, using just number is a bit more English-specific, but the idea is the same, number features (and in principle, also person and gender features) are copied from the N to the D.<\/p>\n Since a pronoun is just a D, it must not need<\/em> agreement features, but rather come with them from the start (since it can’t be getting them from N).<\/p>\n I’ll try to add more details later or answer other questions as they arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve gotten a couple of questions about homework 6, here are some quick thoughts about them. First, yes, in the example tree, I provided an example that has a proper name. We actually still haven’t done proper names in class, but they’ll wind up looking like the example, with a null determiner that is specifically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522s14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}