Practical Grammar 9
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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)
(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives.
- 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:
Make sure that your grammar makes the correct predictions for the sentence below:
(2) Ingrid buys olives
(3) *Ingrid tried buys olives
seem(Raising verb)
(2) 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
