SYNTAX-7: PSR Rules (The Noun Phrase NP)

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[@jefflee4001]

I don't understand the only one CP rule. "The book that I like that John gave me" sounds fine to me (Yes I am a native english speaker; 65 year old American university prof). Another: The pill that I ate that made me sick.

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Thank you for the videos! I watched your Semantics videos upon finishing the last of my postgrad exams and I came back to the syntax videos, because honestly, I loved syntax in undergrad and I wanted to revise a bit of it. Thank you for putting all this work in to make them. I have one question, though. You said that adjective phrases can only go before the head noun in the NP, but... what happens to NPs that have postpositive adjectives like "attorney general", "Princess Royal" or "Queen regent" etc.? Are those considered to be exceptions to the rule or is there another rule at play here that I can't quite recall?

[@petrhajek82]

Thank you very much for this video. May I ask you, is the word order of the given adjectives (big, red, ugly) correct? Shouldn't have been 1) ugly, 2) big, 3) red in order to follow the rules of placing adjectives (opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose)?

[@曾黎俊]

Whether the sentence “that I like the book is expensive” is ungrammatical in any kind of meaning or just under the meaning “I like the book, it is expensive” is ungrammatical? Expecting your answer, doctor Nimer, thanks.

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[@tranminhhoang2479]

Sr but what does TP mean at 10:47?

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[@safytoni3228]

I want more Examples about Head

[@Abdrahimmakhache]

Hello sir , thank you for your valuable videos . I have a question : Can we consider the wh words as complimentizes , because I noticed that you considered " which " as a complimentizer, and I think that we have mostly three or four complimentizers. Thank you in advance .

[@DrNimerAbusalim]

Abderrahim Makhache You are right, but it depends on how the word functionns in the sentence. Wh-words must occur in the specifier of CP. BUT....that is ONLY if they are used to ask a question. Compare: 1. Which book did you buy? = wh-word 2. The book which/that was on sale is nice. = complementizer So, if it is not used as a question and we can replace it with something we know for sure is a complementizer, like 'that', then it should be considered a complementizer.

[@Abdrahimmakhache]

I am sorry sir , but regarding your second clause , " which/that was on sale is an adjective clause modifying or describing which book , and according to my professor , she said one day that complimentizer cannot be replaced with which , if it does , it is a relative pronoun. Like these following clauses: 1.The news that John wil be elected president is posted . ( That is a complimentizer ) 2.The news that we heard yesterday is false. ( That is a relative pronoun ) I would like you to correct everything that seems wrong to you Sir. In my opinion the place of SPECIFIER OF CP should be whether a relative pronoun or complimentizer, unless it is omitted. Thank you Dr.Nimer Abusalim.

[@DrNimerAbusalim]

My comments to you here are based on the specific video you are watching. If relative clause movement is not something discussed in the video or in the videos that precede this video, then I try to stay away from discussing it so that I do not confuse my students. Believe me, nothing 'seems wrong to me'. To answer your question, yes. You are right again. The relative pronoun should be in Spec-CP. I couldn't tell you this here, though, because I have not discussed movement or relative clause formations in any of my videos yet. Again, I do not want to confuse my students. Therefore, I am answering the question based on the knowledge that I am expecting viewers of my videos to have SO FAR. I will have some time later on and will, hopefully proceed to create videos about movement. There you will surely find a more relevant explanation. I have not introduced any material in the specifier of CP yet. For this video, I assume viewers have only been introduced to complementizer material, not Spec-CP material. Therefore, answering your question here will only confuse others. But it seems your own answer is on the right track, anyway. If you would like further details, please email me or refer to Carnie's Syntax textbook.

[@Abdrahimmakhache]

I am sorry I meant everything that seems wrong to me . it is a problem of typing fast.

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[@doctorsoprano]

Thank you for the video, it has helped me understand syntactic trees more fully. I have a question: are heads of phrasal categories optional or obligatory? Thanks!

[@ahmadshiraz8087]

Head of a phrase is always obligatory because without there will be no phrase . It means head that determines the phrase category . So if we don't have head how will we recognize the phrase

[@redamilo1430]

Hello honourable professor! Thanks for these precious lessons. What does TP refer to ?! is it the same as Inflection Phrase ?!

[@DrNimerAbusalim]

'TP' stands for 'Tense Phrase' and its head is 'T'. In X-bar theory we will rename it to 'IP' instead. 'IP' stands for 'Inflection Phrase'

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[@ahmedelheggach9833]

the phrase "the big red apple" is a noun phrase, but "big" and "red" are adjectives, not ad phrases.

[@brownie3275]

''Big'' and ''red'' are AjdP inside NP.

[@ahmedelheggach9833]

@@brownie3275 "big" and "red" in a phrase like "a big red apple" aren't phrases. they are simply adjectives/modifiers that modify the head noun "apple". they are optional and so can be deleted. they don't occupy a position in the sentence. Compare to the following sentence: "the apple is big". here "big" is an adjective phrase because it occupies a position in the sentence, and it is the head in that position

[@曾黎俊]

The red and big is a phrase, because, according to the X-bar theory, any other constituency is a phrase except for heads, the word adjective red forms an AP as a whole, so does the word big.

[@ahmedelheggach9833]

@@曾黎俊 what is the difference between and adjective and ana adjective phrase? between a noun and a noun phrase?

[@曾黎俊]

@@ahmedelheggach9833 When a noun comes into a phrase, it will project a noun phrase as a whole despite of the number of words, nouns are lexical concept, but noun phrases are syntactic idea. So do adjectives.

[@anujab6163]

What is a CP sir ??

[@theerasakmanpuen5285]

I think cp is complement phrase

[@headmistressggpspathanwala7050]

@@theerasakmanpuen5285 7:46 its complementizer phrase rather than complement phrase

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[@曾黎俊]

Whether the sentence “that I like the book is expensive” is ungrammatical in any kind of meaning or just under the meaning “I like the book, it is expensive” is ungrammatical? Expecting your answer, doctor Nimer, thanks.

[@kooraamazigh581]

hello I need help in ungramamatical category in syntax