Linguistics 322

Fall 1998

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Exercise No. 5

Exercise I:

Refer to exercise 2 in last week's exercise (No.4). Replace the second sentence:

2. "The dog catches a mouse" with "The dog is catching a mouse."

Complete the derivation for all three structures (short forms for the first two and the long form for the last). I.e. Satisfy the hosting principle. Be sure to include the feature [X\____ ] in each verbal operator where X = a category.

1. John swallowed a potato.

2.     The dog is catching a mouse.

3.     The two elephants trampled the Mercedes.

Course Outline L322