Practical Grammar CompClauses

Complement Clauses

Exercise 9

• Add the words in the following sentences:

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

Implement the following:

1. that and whether belong to the part of speech C (= complementizer).
2. Complementizers head CPs.
3. CPs take two daughers: a C and an IP. The two daughters are co-heads of the CP.
4. 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.

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