Check Questions
3 What are canonical structural realisation principles?
4 What runs counter to the claim that complementizers determine the force of a clause?
8 How can A-movement and A-bar movement be distinguished?
9 What are the two sets of assumptions proposed to underlie I-to-C movement?
10 How can it be shown that ’whether’ is not a complementizer?
11 What is the Doubly-Filled COMP Filter?
12 List some general ordering restrictions affecting certain elements in a clause.
14 Discuss the differences between relative and interrogative pronouns.
15 How can it be shown that ’that’ is not a relative pronoun?
16 Define and exemplify pied-piping and preposition stranding.
17 What are the different types of relative clauses?
18 Define the following terms: topic, focus, comment.
19 What is the order of wh-elements and topicalised elements in matrix and embedded contexts?
20 What are the three types of movement placing an element to the front of the clause?