Linguistics 322

Exercises

Week 3

Exercise 3:

Open up Grammar2a.

• In this grammar you will generate a noun, a quantifier, and a determiner.
• Generate the following NPs:
1. the book
2. a cynic.
3. two boxes.
4. the five apples.
5. some pears.
6. these four students
7. that one jackal.
8. air.
9. some cream.

• Written exercise:
  • Draw a tree diagram showing the derivation "those four students" indicating agreement
  • Write up the lexican entry with features necessary for the above problem for "jackal" and "air".

 

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