Intro. to Syntax Lecture Notes - New York University

To see this more carefully, let’s systematically deform, for example, (2), and see if, at each stage of the deformation, we still have the feeling that the string of words is an English sentence. Let’s start by removing the [-s] from the example in (2), and see if the [-s]’s removal changes our perceptions of the status of the string: ................
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