In general X-bar terminology, the "head-level" (or "head") of the phrase.
What is X?
100
One of the three functional projections we have examined this semester.
What is the DP, CP or TP?
100
The kind of sentence that requires T-to-C movement in English.
What is a question?
100
The final phrase position in wh-movement (ie., where the movement ends).
What is the specifier of CP?
100
The theta role of "the dog" in the sentence:
"The dog ran."
What is the agent?
200
A complement is defined as sister to X and daughter of *this*.
What is X'?
200
The head D in the possessive phrase "Jim's hat"
What is 's?
200
The kind of movement shown by the French word order SV(Adv)O.
What is V-to-T movement?
200
The part of the sentence that moves for wh-movement.
What is the wh-phrase?
200
The theta relation of "John" in the sentence:
"Stacy hit a baseball to John."
What is the goal?
300
An adjunct is defined as daughter of X' and sister to *this*.
What is X'?
300
The TWO English auxiliary verbs that are base-generated as a V with a VP complement.
What is "to be" and "to have"?
300
The insertion transformation required for SOME English questions.
What is do-support/do-insertion?
300
The kind of movement that embedded wh-clauses do NOT have.
What is T-to-C movement?
300
The number of theta roles assigned by the predicate "seems".
What is one?
400
The constituency test we use to determine if a phrase is an adjunct or a complement of an NP.
What is the one-replacement test?
400
The tense in the main clause for the sentence "He saw me turn in the paper".
What is (tensed) [+past]?
400
The VP-internal subject hypothesis proposes THIS kind of (non-head-to-head) movement.
What is DP movement?
400
For relative clauses, the X-bar position of the embedded wh-clause inside the NP.
What is the adjunct position (of the NP)?
400
The theta role assigned to "it" in the sentence:
"It is likely that Fabio will win the competition."
What is none?
500
The head (ie. head-initial vs. head-final) parameter setting for Japanese, based on the following data:
Kumiko-ga hon-o yonda.
Kumiko book read.past
"Kumiko read the book"
What is head-final?
500
The tense in the embedded clause for the sentence "He saw me turn in the paper".
What is untensed/non-finite?
500
The kind(s) of movement demonstrated in some varieties of British English, based on the following sentence:
Have you a pencil?
What is V-to-T movement and T-to-C movement?
500
The relative clause in the sentence, "He knows the ones she saw".
What is "she saw"?
500
The theoretical mechanism that accounts for expletive "it" insertion and DP movement in untensed clauses.