Building Clauses and Theta Roles

This video extends X-bar structure into full clause architecture and explains how predicates determine their required arguments. Drawing on Carnie Chapters 7 and 8 and English Syntax Onset Units 6 and 10, it introduces DP, TP, CP, functional layers, theta roles, theta grids, arguments versus adjuncts, the Theta Criterion, the Extended Projection Principle, and expletive it and there.