Question

In the sentence “Geoffrey got the job,” “Geoffrey” has this relationship to the phrase “got the job.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this relationship, which has “c” and “m” types. In government and binding theory, a node A has this relationship to a node B if neither dominates the other, but every node dominating A also dominates B.
ANSWER: commands [or constituent command; or c-command; or m-commands]
[10e] Government and binding theory is used in this field of linguistics that studies how sentences are structured.
ANSWER: syntax [or word forms]
[10m] Government and binding theory built on this theory of Noam Chomsky that laid out the headedness and binarity principles. In phrase structure trees, this theory uses a namesake letter as a stand-in for syntactic categories.
ANSWER: X-bar theory [or X-bar schema; prompt on X]
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NYU BBard A0101020
Columbia APenn A0101020
NYU ARutgers A0101020
Penn BRutgers B0000
Princeton ARowan A010010
Cornell CYale A001010
Yale BColumbia B010010
Princeton BYale C0000
VassarHaverford010010