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Null determiners and quantifiers Sept. 24, 2012 – Day 12

Null determiners and quantifiers Sept. 24, 2012 – Day 12. Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University. Course management. http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/. REVIEW. The quiz was the review. NULL DETERMINERS AND QUANTIFIERS. Radford §3.9. NULL DETERMINERS.

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Null determiners and quantifiers Sept. 24, 2012 – Day 12

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  1. Null determiners and quantifiersSept. 24, 2012 – Day 12 Introduction to Syntax ANTH 3590/7590 Harry Howard Tulane University

  2. Course management • http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  3. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  4. REVIEW ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane The quiz was the review.

  5. NULL DETERMINERS AND QUANTIFIERS ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Radford §3.9

  6. NULL DETERMINERS • Det + noun • [DetP [Det the] [N book]] • also this, that, these, those (demonstratives) • Names or proper nouns • John admires Mary. (76) • John and the chairman are attending a meeting. (79) • John takes {himself/*herself/*ourselves} too seriously, {doesn’t {he/*she}/*don’t we}? (cf. 80) • El Juan admira a la María. (cf. 77 in Greek) • [DetP ø John], where ø = 3rdSg • Pronoun + noun • we linguists, you idiots • [DetP we linguists], [DetP you idiots] ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  7. NULL QUANTIFIERS • Q + noun • [QP [Q a] [N book]] • also some, many, each, all, few, most, etc. • Bare NPs • Partitive sentences • I’d like toast and some coffee please. (82b) • … [QP ø toast] and [QP some coffee]… (82b) • ø ≈ some • Generic sentences • Eggs and many dairy products cause cholesterol. (82a) • [QP ø eggs] and [QP many dairy products] … (82a) • ø ≈ all, but … • Humans give birth to live young. • … but not me. (generics allow exceptions) • All humans give birth to live young. (all doesn’t allow exceptions) ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  8. Ø VS. ENOUGH ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  9. EX 3.1, p. 114ff • Put 1-10 on board. • I don’t agree with Radford’s intuitions, but these examples presumably show some influence of c-command. ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane

  10. NEXT TIME ANTH3590/7590, Harry Howard, Tulane Do exercise 3.1 & 3.2 to go over in class Head movement §4.1 - 4.3

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