Linguistics 322

Exercises

Exercise 3:

• Draw by hand using a straight edge (ruler) for the tree diagrams, the phrase structure for the following phrases including spell-out: (don't forget null forms and Case)
  • the six children
  • both the men

In the following two phrases include voice and aspect only, you may use the short form of NP but you must include Case):

• sell every box of sweet peaches
• be driven to school by the neighbor
• Find all the logical syntactic complements in the first two above phrases.
• Why are the following ungrammatical:
  • *every cups
  • *all two feet
• Name the three strategies of syntax
• Determine the lexical entry for the verbs COOK and FEED.
  See The Lexicon (You may skip theta roles, semantics, subcategorization, selectional restrictions)

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