A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

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Section

4.8 English Syntax 8: Arguing for Syntactic Structure

Consider the following sentence and answer the questions below:

The TA who is entering the room will pass out the exam at the door.

Questions

A. Draw a tree structure for the example sentence given above.

B. Determine five pieces of evidence that support the structure you have drawn in 2

question A. For example, you can use the following constructions as evidence:

yeslno questions (to test for the subject constituent), clefts and conjunctions (to

C

test for the structure of the VP), negative placement, and tag questions. c

Provide your five pieces of evidence in the answer sections labeled 1-5. In o"

each case, give the following information in the spaces labeled a-d: e I

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