An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory by H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, E. Stabler

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This girl there will put a picture of Bill on your desk before tomorrow The resulting sentence is fine but the meaning has changed. There does not really replace in the red coat. There suggests that we are talking about a girl in a certain location, while in the red coat does not. Because of this, we are thus not sure that the swapping works for principled reasons rather than accidentally. The conclusion may be correct (and in fact it is) but the reasoning leading to it is perhaps not sound. As another example, we can replace the whole string girl put a picture of Bill on your desk before tomorrow by did: (10) a.

Notice that these are properties determined by the head of the N, when it is complex, and never properties of the non-head constituents of the N. Consequently, it is plausible that these are properties of the N as the locality of selection requires. 4 Apparent exceptions to the RHHR There are some apparent exceptions to the RHHR which deserve attention. Some may turn out to be real once we understand how they work, but others are only apparent. We discuss a few cases here. 1 Conversion Probably the most frequent single method of forming words in English is by conversion or zero derivation.

If the RHHR applied, this suffix should determine the properties of the derived word and in particular its category. If it is a prefix, it should never determine the properties of the complex word. Reviewing all the English examples discussed above, this seems to be the case. Consider the lists of English suffixes on pages 15-16. We see that many suffixes change category, and those that do not change category often change meaning significantly. For example, -er changes V to N in killer, and while -hood does not change category in neighborhood, the meaning is changed significantly.

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