Linguistics 322

Fall 1998

Exercise No. 7

Exercise I:

Determine the logical form for the following sentence, determine its surface structure, and explain each step: what motivates each step:

1. The piano had been being played by Alice.

Exercise II:

What is wrong with the following sentences?:

1. *John has eating a potato.
2. *Mary is had singing a song for an hour.
3. *Wrote a letter by Phil.

Sample:

1. Dilbert saw two unicorn with the gooses.

The feature [-Pl] failed to be copied from two to unicorn.

The irregular feature spelling GOOSE+[+Pl] failed to apply permitting the default to rule to apply.

Course Outline L322