Homework 5

Since the printer wasn’t working and I wanted to have a fairly straightforward homework anyway, homework #5 is just this. It is due on October 17.

[NOTE: Before attempting this, read the associated handout.]

Part 1. Do the exercises at the end of the September 26, 2019, handout. That is, for the following sentences, list the complements, adjuncts, some brief prose about what leads you to those conclusion, a and a tree. [You can skip the PS rules and Lexicon part, just assume that you have defined the lexical items that you need in the trees. If you need a PS rule that you don’t already have, mention it.]

1. John gave Ringo a drum on his birthday.
2. Georgina walked to school nonchalantly.
3. River phrased her words in a strange manner.
4. Pat danced a jig near Chris.

Part 2. None of those sentences involved subject agreement because they were all in the past tense. Even if you didn’t draw the features above, draw the tree including the features and how they project in the tree for the following. For the ungrammatical ones, point out what made them ungrammatical.

1. Printers break often.
2. The printer breaks often.
3. *The printer break often.
4. They break often.
5. *Them break often.
6. They saw me.

Part 3. Consider the sentence below. It is not grammatical. It is not clear from our rules so far why it is ungrammatical. Write some thoughts about what we might add to the system to predict correctly that it ungrammatical.

1. *They saw I.