Introduction to Long-Distance Dependency Constructions (LDDs)
- Organization
- Course overview. Survey of LDD phenomena. How they differ.
- The motivation for movement transformations.
- How transformations work. What are variables in transformations?
- What are island constraints? Early theories. The A-Over-A Principle.
Readings:
- Huddleston, Rodney, Geoffrey K. Pullum et al. 2002. The Cambridge
Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP. Pp. 1079-1096.
(.pdf file )
- Handout on Some Extraction Constructions of English
(.pdf file )
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Last Updated: 3 January 2011