Things you should be able to do for the midterm
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Distinguish between complements, adjuncts, and specifiers.
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Use constituency tests (pseudo-clefting, topicalization, sentence fragments, coordination, VP-pronominalization, word order)
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Be able to explain where things are getting their theta-roles.
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Understand the principles that typically drive movement: the Case Filter and the EPP. Be able to explain why movement can't be to a c-commanded position.
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Distinguish between transitive, unergative, unaccusative, and passive verbs.
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Know Principles A, B, and C, and how to determine the binding domain for a given DP.
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Distinguish control from raising.
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explain/identify: Merge, the Poverty of the Stimulus, ECM, UTAH, the Projection Principle, the Theta-Criterion, the EPP, the Case Filter, Burzio's Generalization, c-command, the Head Movement Constraint, and V2.
Jessica has a lot of review materials on her website.
(to be continued...)