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In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties. | In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties. | ||
''try (Control verb)'' | ==''try (Control verb)''== | ||
<span style="color: blue>Exercise 9.1 (based on section pages 102-103 and 108-110 of the textbook)</span> | |||
* Go to <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>. | * Go to <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>. | ||
* Create a new project and copy your previous grammar into your new project. | * Create a new project and copy your previous grammar into your new project. | ||
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(3) *Ingrid tried buys olives | (3) *Ingrid tried buys olives | ||
''seem(Raising verb)'' | ==''seem(Raising verb)''== | ||
(4) Ingrid seemed to buy olives. | (4) Ingrid seemed to buy olives. | ||
Revision as of 10:24, 1 February 2022
Functional Control
In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties.
try (Control verb)
Exercise 9.1 (based on section pages 102-103 and 108-110 of the textbook)
- Go to https://xlfg.labri.fr/.
- Create a new project and copy your previous grammar into your new project.
- On the basis of pages 102-108 in the textbook, make all the additions to the grammar that are necessary to yield the following outputs for sentence (1):
(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives.
Make sure that your grammar makes the correct predictions for the sentences below:
(2) Ingrid buys olives
(3) *Ingrid tried buys olives
seem(Raising verb)
(4) Ingrid seemed to buy olives.
- 'to' (the infinitive marker): assume that it is marked [IM:+].
- 'buy': [VFORM:INF]
Extended Coherence Condition [non-final version] (p. 138)
- All governable functions present in an f-structure must occur in the value of a local PRED feature.
- All functions that have a PRED value must have a theta role.
(2) Ingrid seemed to buy olives
