A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition
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Name Section 4.2 English Syntax 2: Simple NPs, VPs, and PPS Provide the following tree structures. To do so, you may find it hel ...
C. Draw a tree structure for each of the following prepositional phrases: up the tree in the yard on the desk near the window ...
D. Draw a tree structure for each of the following sentences: The boy in the tree near the house threw the ball into the yard. ...
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Name Section 4.3 English Syntax 3: Ill-Formed Trees The tree structures 1-8 are all ill formed. That is, there is no combination ...
N V NP Mod Particle N Particle Mod Question For each tree, state what the problem is (i.e., why it cannot be generated by the ph ...
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Name Section 4.4 English Syntax 4: Tree and Sentence Matching Below are three sentences and four structures. Match each structur ...
Structure I11 S Art N P NP Art N Structure IV S Art N V NP Particle PP Art N P NP Art N Questions A. Why can three sentences be ...
B. One of the sentences is the output of a transformation discussed in chapter 5 of Linguistics. Which sentence is it? (Hint: Re ...
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Name Section 4.5 English Syntax 5: Possessive NP with a PP In this exercise you will be asked to draw the tree structure for the ...
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Name Section 4.6 English Syntax 6: Verb-Particle versus Verb-PP Structure Each of the sentences 1-6 involves either a verb + par ...
Conjunction (see Linguistics, pp. 179-1 8 1) X and Y X and Y must be of the same category (as for instance in He threw the pen [ ...
Cleft: Conjunction: Particle Movement: Cleft: Conjunction: Particle Movement: Cleft: Conjunction: Particle Movement: Cleft: Conj ...
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Name Section 4.7 English Syntax 7: S-Adverbs versus VP-Adverbs In chapter 5 of Linguistics a distinction is made between S-adver ...
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