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much kategory. many syntacks. wow. so PSR. so task . m any lingwistix. very tree. Task 1: English Syntactic Structures .

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  1. much kategory many syntacks wow so PSR so task many lingwistix very tree

  2. Task 1: English Syntactic Structures • Draw a tree structure diagram for each of the following phrases and sentences. Feel free to modify the phrase structure rules given in the readings/lecture if you think it is necessary. • a. under the bridge • b. fell into the pond • c. this silly picture of Ai • d. Pat loves Robin passionately. • e. Robin talked to the manager over the phone.

  3. Under the bridge Under the bridge (PP) Under (P) (NP) the (Det) bridge (N)

  4. Fell into the pond fell into the pond (VP) fell (V) (PP) (NP) into (P) pond (N) the (Det)

  5. (NP) • This silly picture of Ai This (Det) picture (N) (PP) (AdjP) silly (Adj) (NP) of (P) Ai (N)

  6. (S) • Pat loves Robin passionately (VP) (NP) loves (V) (NP) (AdvP)∆ Pat (N) passionately (Adv) Robin (N)

  7. (S) • Robin talked to the manager over the phone (NP) (VP) Robin (N) talked (V) (PP) (PP) to (P) (NP) over (P) (NP) the (Det) manager (N) the (Det) phone (N)

  8. (S) wow (VP) (NP) very ambiguity Robin (N) talked (V) (PP) to (P) (NP) (PP) the (Det) manager (N) (NP) over (P) phone (N) the (Det)

  9. Task 2: Phrase Structure Rules for Ewe • The following simplified set of phrase structure rules describes some aspects of the syntax of a language called Ewe, spoken in West Africa. Based on these rules, which of the following sentences (1-10) should be grammatical? Which one of the sentences should be ungrammatical? Ewe Phrase Structure Rules • S → NP VP N → {oge, ika, amu} • NP → N (Det) Det→ ye • VP → V NP V → {xa, vo} Ewe Sentences: • (1) Oge xa ika (6) *Vo oge ika • (2) *Ye amuvooge (7) Amu ye voika • (3) *Ikaogexaye (8) *Ye ikaxa ye oge • (4) Oge ye voika ye (9) Xaamu ye • (5) Amu xaoge (10) Oge ye xaamu

  10. Task 2: Phrase Structure Rules for Ewe S → NP VP N → {oge, ika, amu} NP → N (Det) Det → ye VP → V NP V → {xa, vo} (2) *Ye amuvooge(Det, N, V, N) (3) *Ikaogexa ye (N, N, V, Det) (6) *Vo oge ika (V, N, N) (8) *Ye ikaxa ye oge(Det, N, V, Det, N)

  11. Task 3: Evidence for Wh-Movement? Consider the following sentence: Where has John put the car? How can the following data be used to argue that where originated to the right of the car in the underlying structure (i.e., John put the car where?) and was moved to sentence-initial position in the surface structure? Hint: Both where and in the garage indicate location. a) John has put the car in the garage. b) * John has put. c) * John has put the car. d) * John has put in the garage. e) * Where has John put the car in the garage?

  12. John has put the car in the garage A is grammatical with put having 3 arguments: • a subject that must be an agent (John) • a direct object which represents the theme (the car) and • an indirect object which represents a location or a goal (in the garage)

  13. *John has put. B’s ungrammaticality shows that put doesn’t allow for one argument only. *John has put the car. *John has put in the garage C and D’s ungrammaticality shows that put doesn’t allow for two arguments only.

  14. *Where has John put the car in the garage? E’s ungrammaticality shows that put does not allow for 4 arguments.

  15. [John]ihas put [the car]j [in the garage]k The verb put requires 3 arguments, which bears precisely the clause-external theta role of agent, and the clause-internal theta roles of theme and goal. Where has John put the car?

  16. S NP Aux NP Aux VP N NP V N has put N PP John Det Where the car Subject-Auxiliary Inversion Wh-Movement

  17. Task 4: Wanna-Contraction and Wh-Movement In spoken varieties of English, the sequence want to is often contracted to wanna, as in I don’t wanna go or What do you wanna do tonight? However, as illustrated in the following set of sentences, there are some structures where this contraction cannot occur. English-speaking children know how to use wannain the right places (and none of the wrong places) at a very early age. Now explain what it is that they know about using wanna. Under what syntactic contexts is wanna-contraction blocked in the data below? a) Who do you {want to/wanna} visit? b) Who would you {want to/wanna} go out with? c) How many of your friends do you {want to/wanna} invite to the wedding? d) Who do you {want to/*wanna} win the game? e) Who would you {want to/*wanna} look after your pets? f) How many of your friends do you {want to/*wanna} stay with us?

  18. Task 4: Wanna-Contraction and Wh-Movement ‘Want’, and an adjacent infinitival ‘to’, cannot contract if the question queries the identity of the subject of the infinitival clause (as in d, e, f) but they can contract if the question queries information about any other constituent in the infinitival clause (a, b, c) Wh-trace account • ‘Wanna’ contraction is blocked whenever there is a phonetically empty trace of a wh-word located between the want and the infinitival to. This circumstance occur whenever there is a main clause with the verb ‘want’ taking an infinitival clause as its complement, and a question is formed which queries the identity of the subject of the infinitival clause

  19. Task 4: Wanna-Contraction and Wh-Movement • In the derivation of the sentence (d), ‘who’ originates in a position of between want and to. • You wantJimto win the game. You wantwhoto win the game?  [Wh-movement] Who do you want to win the game? NOT *Who do you wannawin the game? • This differs in (a, b, c), where the wh-word originates someplace else. • You want to go out with Jim.  You want to go out with who? [Wh-movement] Who do you want to go out with? OR Who do you wannago out with?

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