Movement Flashcards
What is a constituent that contains a subject and a verb?
A clause
An entire sentence is a _________ clause
Matrix
A word that signals the type of clause that follows is a ___________
Complementizer
What are the complements of CPs?
TPs
What is the head of a clause phrase?
Complementizer
True or false: Movement alters the syntactic properties of the elements in question
False, it does not
True or false: Inversion only applies to yes-no questions
False
What are the levels of syntactic structure implied by movement?
Deep and surface
Which syntactic structure is imposed before and after movement?
Deep (before) and surface (after)
What are questions that require an answer other than yes-no?
Wh-questions
True or false: The Wh-word bears the same syntactic properties as the information sought in the answer
True
Where are Wh-words in a sentence?
At the front of the sentence
Wh-movement applies to which sentence?
Wh-questions
True or false: Wh-questions exhibit inversion
True
