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Linguistics 1150 Online Unit 5 Homework: Syntax 1. Consider the following four sentences of English, and complete the activities that follow. (1) (2) (3) (4) Frederick might hate the new movie. Jessica threw the barrel into the garage. Her aunt brought Stephanie a salad with chicken. Neighbors from his building said he lived alone. a. Construct phrase structure trees for these four sentences. Be sure to include the relevant phrase structure rules you used to build up each tree (a list will suffice in each case; you don’t also have to annotate the relevant nodes in a given tree). b. For each of the four sentences, identify two phrase-level constituents – that is, constituents of category type NP, AP, PP, VP, or S – consisting of multiple words. (So, you should identify eight constituents total.) The two constituents you select for each sentence should be of different syntactic categories – so for instance, you shouldn’t focus on two NPs in a single sentence. For each constituent, state its phrase-level syntactic category, and be sure to include one positive constituency test result supporting your claim (i.e., the actual modified sentence you made), and explicitly state your interpretation of this result (you can use a model such as ‘The success of the X test shows that Y is a constituent in the original sentence.’). c. For each of the four sentences, identify one syntactic unit that functions as an adjunct and one syntactic unit that functions as an argument; be sure to note which phrases these units are performing these functions in, and justify your selections (1-2 sentences should suffice). 2. The following sentence of English is ambiguous: Matilda phoned her colleague from Germany. a. Paraphrase the sentence above in two ways, to highlight its two possible interpretations (note each paraphrase you give should be unambiguous on its own). b. Draw two phrase structure trees for the original sentence, each of which unambiguously conveys one of the two interpretations you identified for part a. Be sure to make clear which tree corresponds to which interpretation. 1 Linguistics 1150 Online 3. Consider the following sentence of English: Stan put the plate on the shelf. a. Explain how on the shelf functions as an argument, rather than an adjunct, within the VP built to the verb put (1-2 sentences should suffice). b. Provide evidence based on distribution showing that put is not of category VP, IV, TV, DTV, or SV. (For instance, what might we expect sample sentences to look like, if put were a member of any of these syntactic categories?) Provide two examples for this question c. Propose a new syntactic category label for this verb and others like it, as well as a phrase structure rule governing the construction of associated VPs like put the plate on the shelf. Provide two examples for this question d. Using the rule you provided for part c., draw a phrase structure tree for the sentence given above. 4. Consider the following data from Malay (Austronesian): surat itu ‘that letter’ a. If surat means ‘letter’ and itu means ‘that’, propose a phrase structure rule governing the construction of NPs like surat itu in Malay. b. Using the rule you proposed for part a., draw a phrase structure tree for the Malay noun phrase surat itu. 2
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1. Consider the following four sentences of English, and complete the activities that follow.
(1)
(2)

Frederick might hate the new movie.
Jessica threw the barrel into the garage.

(3)
(4)

Her aunt brought Stephanie a salad with chicken.
Neighbors from his building said he lived alone.

a. Construct phrase structure trees for these four sentences. Be sure to include the relevant
phrase structure rules you used to build up each tree (a list will suffice in each case;
you don’t also have to annotate the relevant nodes in a given tree).
S

NP

N

VP

Det

V

VP

PrepP

Prep

NP

Adj

Frederick

might

hate

the new

S

NP

VP

N

Movie

Surname 2
V

NP

PrepP

N
Det

N

Prep

NP

Det

Jessica

threw

the

barrel

into

N

the barrel
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