Things you should be able to do for the midterm

• Draw trees for sentences with one clause (you don't need to be able to handle embedded clauses). Illustrate syntactic ambiguities.
• Distinguish between complements, adjuncts, and specifiers.
• Use constituency tests (pseudo-clefting, topicalization, sentence fragments, coordination, VP-pronominalization, word order)
• Be able to explain where things are getting their theta-roles.
• Understand the principles that typically drive movement: the Case Filter and the EPP.
• Distinguish between transitive, unergative, unaccusative, and passive verbs.
• explain/identify: Merge, the Poverty of the Stimulus, ECM, the Projection Principle, the Theta-Criterion, the EPP, the Case Filter, and Burzio's Generalization.