Video 4.4: C-Command and govenment

[@크리야]

Wow wow wow🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉I am studying ur book now!!! It is really exciting to see ur direct lecture!!

[@Ersa0431]

A thousand thanks! This is such a clear explanation!

[@CarnieSyntaxthEdition]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ElHassanGHARDACH]

Thank you!!

[@guidoformichi5148]

Hi! Wonderful work thank you very much for these lessons. I have a question: is this definition of govern synonym with the definition of m-command in G&B theory? Since it's not used that much nowadays I get a bit confused

[@CarnieSyntaxthEdition]

Thanks for the kind words. No, m-command and government are not the same thing. Government is about the relationship between a c-commander and the c-commandee. That relationship must be determined locally. M-command is a kind of c-command that exists only in X-bar theory (covered in later chapters in the book). It effectively defines c-command differently. Instead of referring to first branching node, it refers to the "Maximal Category", i.e. XP. M-command is like c-command except you m-command into the specifier position. (i.e. it allows a kind of "upwards" c-command. M-command is almost never used anymore.

[@nadz2255]

Thank you for this educational video! It really helps a lot! But I do have a question if it's okay, I am still confused about the term "prominence". Is it also a relationship of nodes like Dominance, Precedence and C-Command? What is it's connection to C-Command?

[@CarnieSyntaxthEdition]

Prominence is not a structural relation. But it is a generic term that refers to the relative “importance” of an item. It is not usually structurally defined. But typically on can say that a dominator is more promenant than the thing it dominates; the item that precedes another is more promenant than the item it precedes; and a c-commander is more promenant than the item it c-commands. But again prominence is not defined in the theory and it has no ontological status in the theory described in the book. It’s just a generic descriptor for “more important” which often correlates to “higher up” or “to the left”.