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== Complement Clauses ==
== Subject Clauses ==


<span style="color: blue>Exercise 8.1 (based on section 5.1 of the textbook)</span>
''That''- and ''whether""-clauses can also act as subjects:


* Go to <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>.
1. That Lilly disappeared sucks<br>
* Open your latest grammar.  
2. Whether Lilly disappeared is unknown
* Add the words in the following sentences:


(1) Oscar thinks Sarah likes musicals<br>
There is an important difference to the case when clauses appear in object functions: in subject function, the complementizer is also obligatory in ''that''-clauses, as the following sentences show:
(2) Oscar thinks that Sarah likes musicals


* Make any further changes that are necessary to obtain exactly the f-structure (10) on p. 101 for (1)-(2).
3. *Lilly disappeared sucks<br>
* Extend your grammar to predict the following facts:
4. *Lilly disappeared is unknown


(3) Oscar enquires whether Sarah likes musicals<br>
And, of course, the complementizers are still bound to their clause types:
(4) *Oscar enquires Sarah likes musicals<br>
(5) *Oscar enquires that Sarah likes musicals


For sentence (3), you should obtain an f-structure which is identical to that of sentence (1), with the exception that the CLTYPE of (3) should be INTER.
1. *Whether Lilly disappeared sucks<br>
2. *That Lilly disappeared is unknown


Now make sure that your grammar does not license the following example:
<span style="color: blue>Exercise 8b.1</span>


(6) *Oscar thinks whether Sarah likes musicals
* Go to <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>.
 
* Open your latest grammar.
This requires the use of a constraining equation in one place!
* Add the sentences above to your test items.
 
* Change the grammar so that it makes the correct predictions for all test items.
'''Note:''' the solution to this exercise is going to be posted under the name ''Practical Grammar 6_solution''.


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== Collecting everything we have done so far in one grammar ==
 
<span style="color: blue>Exercise 8.2</span>
 
* Go to <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>.
* Open the grammar ''Practical Grammar 7''. Except for test sentences, it is empty.
* Open xlfg again in a second browser tab by clicking on <span class="newwin">[https://xlfg.labri.fr/ https://xlfg.labri.fr/]</span>.
* Open your previous grammars in the second tab window and copy information from those grammars into ''Practical Grammar 7'' in the first browser tab until the grammar returns the expected result for all test sentences.


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a. treat ''is'' as a verb which combines with a COMP and an OBJ.<br>
b. treat ''unknown'' as an adjective.


== Homework ==


<span style="color: blue>For next week, read pages 102-113 in the textbook.</span>




Revision as of 11:31, 28 June 2021

Subject Clauses

That- and whether""-clauses can also act as subjects:

1. That Lilly disappeared sucks
2. Whether Lilly disappeared is unknown

There is an important difference to the case when clauses appear in object functions: in subject function, the complementizer is also obligatory in that-clauses, as the following sentences show:

3. *Lilly disappeared sucks
4. *Lilly disappeared is unknown

And, of course, the complementizers are still bound to their clause types:

1. *Whether Lilly disappeared sucks
2. *That Lilly disappeared is unknown

Exercise 8b.1

  • Go to https://xlfg.labri.fr/.
  • Open your latest grammar.
  • Add the sentences above to your test items.
  • Change the grammar so that it makes the correct predictions for all test items.

Notes:

a. treat is as a verb which combines with a COMP and an OBJ.
b. treat unknown as an adjective.





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