I'm curious about the sentence "I'm going to have to love all of these things you've never seen". I have studied many things adjacent to linguistics but never linguistics so I find this blog fascinating!!
[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence, "I'm going to have to love all of these things you've never seen". The phrase "all of these things you've never seen" is interpretted as a series of DPs, with "all" as the head of the entire phrase. The tree gives off a sense of mild discomfort at this fact.]
Hello and welcome! Always exicting when someone new is dipping their toes into linguistics - it's a rich and fascinating field, and I would heartily encourage you to follow that fascination!
This tree actually caused me quite a bit of trouble, and I am honestly not 100% sold on the final version. My natural intuition is that "things" should be the head of the object NP, but then the quantifier "all of these" becomes very difficult to express neatly, so in this case I caved and did a DP analysis.
