The Ling Space's video: What Makes a Basic Sentence A History of Clauses

What goes into making a sentence? How has our view of the sentence changed over time? In this week's episode, we look at the history of clauses: what our first conceptions of them were, how we came to view inflection as the key to the sentence, and why we then broke inflection down further and made tense central. This is Topic ! This week's tag language: Nahuatl! Related episodes: Happy Little Trees: X' Theory of Syntax - https://youtu.be/7UOcoQr0hvg Trace Evidence: Syntactic Movement and Traces - https://youtu.be/x5iBbSkp8rk Some Assembly Required: Derivational and Inflectional Morphology - https://youtu.be/BTZCozhneKA Last episode: A Productive Formula: Compound Nouns - https://youtu.be/nQElBnBWExc Other of our morphosyntax videos: Up, Up, and Away: the Verb Phrase-Internal Subject Hypothesis - https://youtu.be/EJoUyPIdu18 Desert Island Words: Syntactic Islands - https://youtu.be/01uH4XfJx3g Organizing Meanings: Morphological Typology - https://youtu.be/Ts2DS0ZsTyo Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace/ And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-77/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: Pollock, J-Y. (1989) Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP. Accessed from http://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/pollock.pdf Much of the presentation's structure was inspired by Paul Hagstrom's course notes: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/course/lx523-s01/handouts/SyntaxII.1.IP.Pollock.pdf Andrew McIntyre's condensed syntax text is also a big help: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff/1685901/unterrichtsmaterialien/fundamental-engl-syntax-2014-online-einseitig.pdf We also consulted Denis Bouchard's The Semantics of Syntax: A Minimalist Approach to Grammar; and Lillian Haegeman's Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. See you all in two weeks!