The document discusses the idea of syntax being autonomous and debates whether movement is really happening in transformations or if it is just an illusion. It notes that many people disagreed with the idea that syntax is autonomous and that there is no real evidence for it. It also discusses concepts like unification grammars, agreement, tense, content, meaning, structure-sharing, and debates whether movement is needed or if deletion rules can account for transformations through structure-sharing and storing deleted information elsewhere in the tree.

1. CONTENT

2. Syntax is autonomous!

3. Many people disagreed

4. No real evidence!

5. Nobody believes it, anyway!

6. Unification Grammars

7. Don’t need this structure

8. Agreement and tense

9. Agreement is just Unification

10. Matching is basic to thinking, maybe

11. Tense is part of CONTENT (Meaning)

12. Content is important

13. Meaning and grammar work together

14. CONTENT is unified through the head

15. V onto VP and so on

16. Notice the structure-sharing

17. [sees us] – what about the SEER?

19. The squared numbers …

20. … a shortcut to show structure-sharing

21. [he sees us]

22. Notice the CONT shared up the head

23. V to VP to VP(S)

24. Look at CONT

25. Structure-sharing is dynamic

26. It looks like it’s MOVING up the tree

27. The ILLUSION of movement

28. Shut up! It’s REALLY movement!!

29. No, maybe it’s just an ILLUSION

30. Maybe we don’t need this structure

31. Illusion of move
ment

32. Remember movement is important

33. Important to TRANSFORMATIONAL
grammar

34. No movement, no transformations

35. Simple sentence

36. Now move [Taro]
• Taro, I like
• What does that mean?
• I hate Ichiro, but I like Taro
• Or I love Hanako, but I only like Taro

37. Unification Grammars don’t move

38. [I like]

39. [I like] – no Complement

40. [I like]

41. [I like] – the subject is there, but no
object

42. [I like] but the NP stays in COMPS

43. [I like] – what about COMPS NP?

44. Deletion rule

45. Maybe you delete and store it
somewhere else

46. DELETED – this is usually called
NONLOCAL

47. The deleted information is carried up
the tree

48. Structure-sharing

49. The APPEARANCE of movement

50. And it can be cancelled in these kinds
of structures

51. I don’t like this kind of explanation

52. Why do you need the deletion rule?

53. Why not keep the NP in COMPS

54. It seems easier

55. But, anyway, we don’t need movement

56. Anyway …

57. Movement

58. No movement