Linguistics 322

Exercises

Week 2

Exercise 2:

1. Go to Syntactic Structure Testing in Program Aids and complete Exercise 16 therein.
   • Complete six forms, print them, and turn them in.

now open up Grammar 2 Lexicon

• Suffixes are introduced in Grammar2. Numerals from one to 1,000 are also introduced in 2.
• Determiners are also introduced.
• Generate the following phrases:

1. one apple
2. one balloon
3. this picture
4. that rice
5. the two apples
6. five people
7. the cattle
8. some scissors
9. several books
10. few ideas
11. the one idea
12. oxen
13. two men
14. three feet
15. the three muses.
16. *one people
17. *two rices
18. *five polices

Note that we (my w.s. student and me) have not got irregular the code for operators worked out yet. This means that we can only one form for ONE (one), and the singular for THIS and THAT. The code is more complex than I had envisioned. However, the irregular forms for Anglo-Saxon nouns does work. For [-Def], type in NULL. Later, I will have it return a blank. So it is OK if NULL TWO WOMAN returns 'null two women'.

• Draw by hand the tree structures for 1. and 8. above.

 

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