Parameters Day 5, Sept. 7, 2012
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ParametersDay 5, Sept. 7, 2012Introduction to Syntax
ANTH 3590/7590
Harry Howard
Tulane University
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Course management
http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/ANTH3590/ If you notify me by email ahead of time of a
scheduled absence, I will not hold it against you.
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Photos!
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1.6 ParametersGo over vocabulary in bold face
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Introduction
The previous pages argue that much of the grammar of language is universal.
If all of grammar were universal, children would only need to learn words, and all grammars would be the same.
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Three parameters
The null-subject parameter Mary thinks that *(they) speak Spanish. María piensa que hablan español.
The Wh-parameter What do you think he will say? Ni xiang ta hui shuo shenme?
The head-position parameter Close the door ~ desire for change Muneul dadara ~ byunhwa-edaehan galmang
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Background to an example
Well, consider the following sentences, in which the names have been labelled for thematic role, as so: Ag = Agent, the person or thing that does the
action of the verb Pat = Patient, the person or thing that receives
the action of the verb
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Review basic word order
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1. MaryAg kissed JohnPat
2. MaryAg JohnPat kissed
3. JohnPat kissed MaryAg
4. JohnPat MaryAg kissed
5. kissed MaryAg JohnPat
6. kissed JohnPat MaryAg
1. SVO2. *SOV3. *OVS4. *OSV5. *VSO6. *VOS
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Pre- vs. postpositions
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7. at home (is where I want to be)
8. home at (is where I want to be)
[P N] is typical of VO languages
[N P] is typical of OV languages
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COMPOUND NOUNSACT LIKE SMALL SENTENCES
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man-eating shark fire-breathing dragon heart-rending story Greek-speaking interpreter self-cleaning oven
OVS OVS OVS OVS OVS
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1.7 Parameter setting
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Learning a language
Involves learning the morphemes of the language ~
lexical learning setting parameters ~ structural learning
The latter makes it easy for children to learn the language.
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Exercises
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Background
Sample sentence: John has gone home. Auxiliary verbs are heads that take a verb
and the stuff associated with it as a complement: has [gone home]
Verbs are heads that take a direct object and maybe other stuff associated with it as a complement: gone [home]
Any variation from this canonical (basic – normal – underlying) order must be the result of a movement.
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Exercise 1.1, Elizabethan syntax
1. ‘Seawater shalt thou drink’ ‘seawater’ should be complement to ‘drink’ >
‘drink seawater’ ‘drink seawater’ should be complement to ‘shalt’
> ‘shalt drink seawater’ ‘thou’ should be subject > ‘Thou shalt drink
seawater’
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1.1 others?
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1.2 Child syntax (go over each one)
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NEXT TIMEQ1
Phrases & clauses 2.1 - 2.3, Ex 2.1
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