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* 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.  
* 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:
* On the basis of pages 102-108 in the textbook, make all the additions to the grammar that are necessary to yield the following o


(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives
(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives
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''try (Control verb)''
''try (Control verb)''
(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives.


* 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.  
* 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:
* 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.


[[File:Ingrid-tried-to-buy-olives-cs.JPG | 500px]] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
[[File:Ingrid-tried-to-buy-olives-cs.JPG | 500px]] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Revision as of 10:22, 1 February 2022

Functional Control

Exercise 9.1 (based on section pages 102-103 and 108-110 of the textbook)


In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties.

try (Control verb)

  • 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.

Ingrid-tried-to-buy-olives-cs.JPG     Ingrid-tried-to-buy-olives-fs.JPG

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

Ingrid-seemed-to-buy-olives-csJPG.JPG     Ingrid-seemd-to-buy-olives-fs.JPG Ingrid-seemed-to-buy-olives-as.JPG