535 Assignment 10

Bobaljik, Adjacency

Due: Thurs, Feb. 19

1.      What evidence does Bobaljik give to show that 'NegP' may actually be a more general affirmation/negation phrase?


2.   Does Bobaljik assume that suprasegmental features can be Vocabulary Items in their own right? What such feature does he propose is a VI in English?


3.    Bobaljik proposes that non-availability of morphological forms can have the apparent result of blocking an otherwise grammatical syntactic derivation. In which case does he say this situation arises?

4.   What prediction with regard to negative polarity licensing would a purely syntactic C-lowering analysis make for Irish? Why does the merger-under-adjacency account fare better?