Yesterday's Notes
Complement Clause:
I don’t care whether he liked the book.
What is “whether,” and where do you put it?
Solution: add a complement phrase (CP) above IP. IP is complement of CP, complement is head.
The coach knows that the team, will win:
Entire second clause serves as complement of verb phrase in first clause. (See p167)
· Contractions and neg verbs are considered single unique structures. Don’t/Do not = Verb by itself.
· Double auxiliary: should have, could have-considered single verb-use triangle to show you’re not analyzing whole phrase.
Universal Grammar - “Though the parameters differ, the basic principles are the same. A lot of people really buy that.”
· Deep Structure: What the sentence really looks like, according to x’ schema-what it looked like “originally”
· Surface Structure: What the sentence looks like when you say it or write it.
Use Move rules to turn deep structure into surface structure.
Complement Clause in Questions:
Inversion: Move whatever is under I to C position and add +Q. If nothing under I, first insert do/did, then move it.
Should he go? à He should go.
I work every day à Do I work every day?