10b: The content of the dark boxes
The handout labeled “10b” has a couple of slides where the text is unreadable due to the background in the text boxes having been too dark. I’ve posted a new version of the handout on the syllabus page that fixes that problem, but if you don’t wish to print it out again, here’s what you missed:
First slide:
- Charlie seems to dislike bees
- First, does Charlie get a θ-role from seem?
- Well, no. Seem only assigns the one θ-role.
- So, unlike in Charlie tried [PRO to elude the bees], we have as many DPs as we have θ-roles.
Second slide:
- Charlie seems to dislike bees
- So, what θ-role does Charlie get?
- Still seems to be the Experiencer of dislike
- So, suppose that Charlie starts out in the same place, SpecvP.
- But now, after building vP, we add a nonfinite T…