Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 otl: 66 points HW 4 Answers 1. extbook: roblem 3.9 pg. 162 20 points () ' ' 1 1 present present Flstff 2 Flstff ' must 2 ' must lone drink lone drink his ' his ' beer beer (ii) he king stted tht Shylock must drink his beer lone, nd drink his beer lone Shylock must. (iii) * he king stted tht Shylock must drink his beer lone, nd drink his beer Shylock must lone. Sentences (ii) nd (iii) involve movement test. In both cses, 2 is moved to the front of sentence. hey both show tht if 2 is fronted, lone must lso move if the sentence is to be grmmticl. his fct supports the hypothesis tht lone is prt of 2 constituent. (iv) Shylock must drink his beer lone, nd Henry must too. (v) *Shylock must drink his beer lone, nd Henry must with istol. Sentences (iv) nd (v) involve deletion test. In both cses 2, heded by drink is deleted. If the subconstituent lone is deleted with 2 (resulting in grmmticl sentence) then it lone must be subconstituent of 2. If it is possible to delete 2 without deleting lone then lone is not prt of 2. Sentences (iv) nd (v), both show tht lone is prt of 2. his is becuse when lone is deleted, s in (iv), the sentence is grmmticl, wheres, if lone is replced by similr constituent, s in (v), the sentence is ungrmmticl. 1 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 (vi) Shylock must drink his beer lone, nd so must Henry. Sentence (vi) involves pro-form test, where the ntecedent of the pro-form so is. his sentence lso shows tht lone is prt of 2 becuse so in the second conjunct of (vi) must be interpreted s drink his beer lone. 2. extbook: roblem 3.11 pg. 186 20 points () the bsic order of Mlgsy constituents is -O-IO--S (b) Lexicon # of rguments het-role mtory sleep 1 <gent> mihinn et 2 <gent, theme> nmngy visited 2 <gent, ptient> nmono killed 2 <gent, ptient> nnseho showed 3 <gent, ptient, gol> nndroso served 3 <gent, theme, gol> tong rrived 1 <theme> me ron E AJ hitr grss i-oro ny us the tmin with/on ntitr old koho chicken -ko my torin fter vovo new nkizy children zz child ntsy knife lehilhy mn lovi dish mpmboly frmer omby cow rhlhi brother vry rice sri picture lovi dish (c) nme (-n ) [+gen] (A) () () () 2 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 (d) (i) (iv) ' ' tong ' mpmpintr ' torin' ntitr ' ' nmngy nkizy rhlhi-ko ny (vii) ' ' nnseho reni-n' ' ' ' sri-n' lehilhy zz ' i-oro 3 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 3. rw syntctic trees for the following sentences: ) Mry sw movie b) Bill rented n prtment from friend. 14 points Mry Bill sw rented from ' n ' ' movie prtment friend c) Bill rented Mry n prtment. d) John knew tht Mry got new job John Bill knew C C' C rented Mry tht Mry n ' prtment got ' ' job new 4 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 e) Kim rrived on time, but Sue ws lte. f) John put the cr in the grge. Sentence S Conj but John put Kim Sue the ' in rrived ws ' cr the ' on lte ' grge time 5 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 g) A girl tht Bill met t school won n wrd t the Olympics. ' C girl C' won C t tht n ' the ' wrd Bill Olympics met t ' school 6 of 7
Svetln Godjevc ovember 10, 2003 4. Using pro-form nd movement s tests for constituent structure provide evidence for constituency of the underlined strings below. After you pply the tests, sy whether the underlined string is constituent or not. 12 points ) John put the cr in the grge. John put the cr there. In the grge, John put the cr. he underlined string is constituent. b) John put the cr in the grge. John put it in the grge. he cr, John put in the grge. he underlined string is constituent. c) John put the cr in the grge. John did so. (nd) put the cr in the grge, John did. he underlined string is constituent. d) Mry bought the book with green cover. *Mry bought it with green cover. *he book, Mry bought with green cover. he underlined string is not constituent tht cn be replced by pronoun or moved in this sentence. It is possible to consider the underlined string constituent, but in tht cse the mening of the sentence chnges. he, with green cover, in tht cse gets interpreted s n instrument of the verb buy, not s modifier of the book. e) Mry bought the book with green cover. Mry bought the book????with green cover, Mry bought the book. he underlined string is constituent, lthough the tests re not ble to show tht. here is no proform for the string with green cover, nd moving the to the front of the sentence does not produce perfectly cceptble string. f) Mry bought the book with green cover. Mry bought it. he book with green cover, Mry bought. he underlined string is constituent. 7 of 7