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@@ -24,29 +24,28 @@ Certainly, all of syntax cannot be taught at once. Yet the desire to generalize
- Syntactic Categories [SKS 2.1]
- Compositionality [SKS 2.3]
- Headedness [SKS 2.4]
-- Merge, Part I
+- [Merge, Part I](#merge-part-i)
+ - Binary Branching
- Constituency [SKS 3]
- - Constituency Tests [SKS 3]
- Heads, Specifiers and Complements
- - Silent Heads
-- Notation
+ - [Silent Heads](#silent-heads)
+- [Notation](#notation)
- X'-theory [SKS 6]
- - Bare Phrase Structure [n/a]
+ - [Bare Phrase Structure](#bare-phrase-structure) [n/a]
- Lexical Entries [SKS 6.8]
-- Minimalism [n/a]
-- Merge, Part II
+- [Minimalism](#minimalism) [n/a]
+- [Merge, Part II](#merge-part-ii)
- Projection [SKS 5]
- Selection
- - Small Clauses
- Move [SKS 8]
- - Head Movement (affix hopping) [SKS 8.3]
- - Questions
- - vP Shells [SKS 12.4]
+ - [Affix Hopping](#affix-hopping)
+ - Head Movement [SKS 8.3]
+ - Wh- Movement
+ - [vP Shells](#vp-shells) [SKS 12.4]
- Agree
- - Theta Roles (assigned by verbs)
- - Locality (c-command)
- - Binding (Principles A, B, C) [SKS 7]
- - Small Clauses [SKS 7.4]
+ - Theta Roles [SKS 6.8.1]
+ - Locality
+ - [Binding](#binding) [SKS 7]
- Raising & Control [SKS 9]
- Advanced Syntax
- References
@@ -242,7 +241,7 @@ Merge is *the* fundamental underlying aspect of syntax and arguably language as
## Move
-### head movement
+### tense and affix hopping
![will](tense-no-tense.png)
<details markdown="block">
@@ -364,6 +363,10 @@ For now, we'll consider the verb to no longer be in charge of selecting the subj
</details>
+This now makes our top-level phrase type $T$ instead of $V$. It will not remain so for very long.
+
+### head movement
+
### wh-movement
### vP shells
@@ -379,7 +382,7 @@ Consider the following sentence: *Alice will speak to the assembly*. With our cu
[$T$
[$D$ [Alice, roof]]
[$T_D$
- [$T_{D,V}$ [will, roof]]
+ [$T_{D,V}$ [will]]
[$V$
[$V_P$ [speak]]
[$P$