Chapter 3 - Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory
(7) X' (8) XP
X' X'
X YP YP X Y'
(9) XP (10) XP
ZP X' X'
X XP Y'
(11) XP (12) XP
X' ZP X'
XP YP X' WP
Y' X' KP
Y X
(13) XP (14) XP
X' X' X'
X' Y' X
(15) XP
ZP WP YP
Exercise 2
Fill in the well-formed tree diagrams in Exercise 1 with lexical items. Pay attention to
category: if there happen to be two XPs in a diagram, make sure that the category of
the lexical items chosen is identical.