Week 5.2 Syntax II: Merge, Move, and Universal 20

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公開日: 2020年10月28日

In this video we take a look at Universal 20, which observes that the possible orderings of the items {Demonstrative, Numeral, Adjective, Noun} within the Noun Phrase are severely restricted across the world's languages. Some of the possible orders are unattested, and believed to be in fact unattestable (i.e. impossible). We discover how we can predict both which orders are possible and which ones are impossible by looking in some more detail at the processes by which words are combined into sentences: merge, move, and pied-piping.

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Credits:
Intro Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Drawing of Pied-Piper of Hamelin: Kate Greenaway
Photograph of Joseph Greenberg: National Academy of Sciences
Photograph of Calder's Red Mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Montrealais