Practical Grammar CompClauses: Difference between revisions

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Next, we come to the exciting topic of complement (= subordinate) clauses. Here are two examples:

(1) Fred thinks that Lilly disappeared
(2) Fred enquires whether Lilly disappeared

There is nothing really special about these structures. As with prepositional phrases, we need

We make the following assumptions:

that and whether belong to the part of speech C (= complementizer).
Complementizers head CPs.
CPs take two daughers: a C and an IP. The two daughters are co-heads of the CP.
You need to add a new VP rule which allows a VP to consist of a V and a CP. The CP bears the GF COMP.

Exercise 9

Implement this analysis so that the grammar produces the output in the document Exercise-9-expected-output.pdf on Olat.

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 == Complement Clauses ==
-<span style="color: blue>Exercise 9 </span>
+Next, we come to the exciting topic of complement (= subordinate) clauses. Here are two examples:
-* Add the words in the following sentences:
 (1) Fred thinks that Lilly disappeared<br>
 (2) Fred enquires whether Lilly disappeared
-Implement the following:
+There is nothing really special about these structures. As with prepositional phrases, we need
+# lexical items for the new verbs
+# lexical items for the two complementizers ''that'' and ''whether''
+# two new phrase structure rules.
+We make the following assumptions:
 # ''that'' and ''whether'' belong to the part of speech C (= complementizer).
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 # You need to add a new VP rule which allows a VP to consist of a V and a CP. The CP bears the GF '''COMP'''.
-* Make any further changes that are necessary to obtain the f-structure (10) on p. 101 for (1), with one exception: your grammar will not contain the information [CLTYPE DECL] in the main f-structure! For sentence (2), you should obtain an f-structure which is identical to that of sentence (1), with the exception that the CLTYPE of the COMP in (2) should be INTER.
+<span style="color: blue>Exercise 9 </span>
+Implement this analysis so that the grammar produces the output in the document Exercise-9-expected-output.pdf on Olat.