Difference between revisions of "Trace"
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A trace marks the location in a sentence or syntactic tree from which a lexical item has been moved.
Examples
From the original structure, wh-movement creates a trace where John used to be.
- John will eat apples.
- [Johni [will eat apples]]
- Who will eat apples?
- [Whoi [ti will eat apples]]
CP /| Whoi | IP /| NP I' | |\ | I VP ti | | | V' will |\ V \ | NP eat | | apples
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