Chapter 7: X-Bar Syntax - Cross-categorial Generalisations Flashcards

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adjoin/adjunction

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A way of positioning Adjuncts in X-Bar syntax. This is by repeating the node (e.g. V’) and adding the Adjunct (e.g. and AdvP) as its daughter.

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cross-categorial generalisations

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Theories of syntax which stipulate that all major phrase types are structured in the same way.

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Complement

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‘any consituent whose presence is required by another element’ . All major syntactic categories can take a Complement (Aarts 101)

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projection

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refers to a specific level of sentence structure

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lexical projection: X

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refers to the word-level of sentence structure (just the Head)

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bar-level projection: X’

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refers to the specific level of sentence structure in X-bar syntax (Head and Complement)

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maximal projection: X’‘/XP

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refers to the phrase level of sentence structure in X-bar syntax (Head, Complement and Specifier)

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Specifier

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a functional notion denoting a word that specifies, or changes the meaning of, a Head+Complement sequence.

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subcategorisation

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The notion that the Head syntactically requires the presence of their Complement.

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subcategorisation frame

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A figure showing which Complement a Head takes. It comes in two parts: on the top line is the element that is subcategorised with the word class label, and the second line is in brackets and consists of a dash indicating the place of the element, followed by a comma and the category whose presence is required by the subcategorised element.

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X-bar syntax

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a component of the grammar that determines the internal organization of structural units. The X-bar format imposes that each such unit be organized around a head (X).

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