{"id":105,"date":"2009-02-28T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx523s09\/2009\/02\/28\/hw5-what-c-commands-what\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T23:45:10","slug":"hw5-what-c-commands-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/2009\/02\/28\/hw5-what-c-commands-what\/","title":{"rendered":"HW5: What c-commands what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problem in the statement of the system you&#8217;re to be considering for Question 2 on HW5. It just doesn&#8217;t work as stated, so if you&#8217;re having trouble figuring it out, this might be why.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways that I could fix this, they&#8217;d each be equivalent for the purposes of this problem. One would be to suppose that the structure isn&#8217;t exactly as it is drawn in (3), but rather has Q (or, perhaps &#8220;QP&#8221;) adjoined to the wh-phrase. Another is to suppose that my statement of the conditions under which the single-pair and pair-list reading weren&#8217;t quite right. I think for the present purposes, I will fix it using the latter approach.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m going to do here is say that it is equivalent to be c-commanded by Q itself or to be c-commanded by QP. So, replace the text above Question 2 with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, the correlation between the interpretation that a question can get and the eventual structural position of Q is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If both wh-words are c-commanded by either Q or QP, a single-pair reading results.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If just one wh-word is c-commanded by either Q or QP, a pair-list reading results.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a fairly elaborate system, although some of it is justified on grounds we&#8217;re not covering here now (but will get to next week). To review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Q must attach to a <em>wh<\/em>-word.<\/li>\n<li>Q must move to C (and prefers to ride along with a <em>wh<\/em>-word to SpecCP).<\/li>\n<li>Q will attach to the lower <em>wh<\/em>-word if it can.<\/li>\n<li>Single pair = <strong>both <em>wh<\/em>-words are c-commanded by Q or QP<\/strong>; pair-list otherwise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that should at least make it possible to get to the conclusion I was thinking of when I wrote the problem up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problem in the statement of the system you&#8217;re to be considering for Question 2 on HW5. It just doesn&#8217;t work as stated, so if you&#8217;re having trouble figuring it out, this might be why. There are two ways that I could fix this, they&#8217;d each be equivalent for the purposes of this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/2009\/02\/28\/hw5-what-c-commands-what\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;HW5: What c-commands what?&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errata","category-homework-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}