Exercise I: Exercise I:
- Go to Syntactic Structure Testing in Computer Program Aids and complete Exercise 15 therein.
- Next, go to Grammar 1a Lexicon MAC/DOS and open it. This grammar is very minimal and does very little. The idea here is get you familiar with generating sentences. Next week, if all goes well, we introduce the lexicon, where you will introduce new lexical items which will be stored for future reference. This ofrm of the grammar is not generatin the plural ending--which we represent here in paranetheses--don't panic.
- Produce the following sentences:
1. one car
2. two bush(es)
3. one unicorn
4. some soap
5. *one people
6. *three pencil(s).
7. Draw by hand on a separate piece of paper the three structure for #4 above, and indicate the government link(s) that occur here.
Note
the final version of the Grammar 1 is not ready yet. This exercise
is to make you familiar with using the program. The lexicon that
you save here will not work in the next exercise. It is my intention
to have the lexicon that you build in Grammar 2 to be a permanent
one that you can add data to.
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