From 0068900cfb7d17d5f65a899f7a068d0e5dbfaa2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JJ Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:39:54 -0700 Subject: meow --- linguistics/syntax.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ linguistics/tense-no-tense.png | Bin 0 -> 10820 bytes linguistics/tense-null.png | Bin 12688 -> 13530 bytes 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 linguistics/tense-no-tense.png diff --git a/linguistics/syntax.md b/linguistics/syntax.md index d5d88a6..b1ff9bc 100644 --- a/linguistics/syntax.md +++ b/linguistics/syntax.md @@ -244,6 +244,26 @@ Merge is *the* fundamental underlying aspect of syntax and arguably language as ### head movement +![will](tense-no-tense.png) +
+LaTeX + +```forest +\begin{forest} +[$V$ + [$D$ [I, roof]] + [$V_D$ + [$V_{D,P}$ [walk]] + [$P$ + [$P_D$ [to]] + [$D$ + [$D_N$ [the]] + [$N$ [school]]]]]]] +\end{forest} +``` + +
+ So far, we have not dealt with tense. We have diagrammed sentences with verbs in present and past forms by entirely ignoring their *-s* and *-ed* affixes. But tense is an aspect of grammar just like anything else, and writing it off as purely semantic does no good to anyone. Indeed, the English future having its tense marker *will* as a free-standing morpheme strongly suggests that we have to treat tense as a category in its own right, and not just as an inflectional property of verbs. A tense needs a *subject*. This is evident in our tree structure below, but is motivated by... diff --git a/linguistics/tense-no-tense.png b/linguistics/tense-no-tense.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ea1c6d Binary files /dev/null and b/linguistics/tense-no-tense.png differ diff --git a/linguistics/tense-null.png b/linguistics/tense-null.png index f5cbf37..106e0b9 100644 Binary files a/linguistics/tense-null.png and b/linguistics/tense-null.png differ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2