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)
- 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
