Week 6

What is the definition of c-command?

• Node A c-commands node B if A dominates B.

• Node A c-commands node B if every node dominating A also dominates B, and neither A nor B dominates the other.

• Node A c-commands node B if every node dominating A also dominates B, and A dominates B.

• Node A c-commands node B if B dominates A.

Which of the following statements about c-command is TRUE?

• C-command holds among sisters and their children but not between mothers and daughters.

• C-command holds between aunts and their nieces, but not among sisters.

• C-command holds between a mother and daughter, but not between sisters.

• C-command holds between cousins and their parents.
  

Symmetric c-command applies to sisters only.

• True

• False

Asymmetric c-command does NOT apply to where an aunt c-commands her nieces and the descendants of her nieces.

• True

• False

Does NP 4 c-command NP 3 ?

• Yes

• No

Does NP 3 c-command NP 1 ?

• Yes

• No

Which of the following scenarios illustrates a situation where government does NOT hold?

• Node A c-commands Node B with no intervening node G that c-commands B.
  

• Node A c-commands Node B, but there is an intervening node G that is c-commanded by A and asymmetrically c-commands B.

• Node A and Node B are sisters in the syntactic structure.

• Node A is a parent of Node B in the syntactic hierarchy.

Does T head-govern D 2 ?

• Yes

• No

Which is NOT a grammatical relation?

• Subject

• Object

• Node

• Oblique

There are two NPs which are objects of prepositions. What are they?

• NP 3 is the object of P 1 and NP 4 is the object of P 2.

• NP 3 is the object of P 2 and NP 4 is the object of P 1.