Practical Grammar 8b

Complement Clauses

Exercise 8.1 (based on section 5.1 of the textbook)

• Go to https://xlfg.labri.fr/.
• Open your latest grammar.
• Add the words in the following sentences:

(1) Oscar thinks Sarah likes musicals
(2) Oscar thinks that Sarah likes musicals

• Make any further changes that are necessary to obtain exactly the f-structure (10) on p. 101 for (1)-(2).
• Extend your grammar to predict the following facts:

(3) Oscar enquires whether Sarah likes musicals
(4) *Oscar enquires Sarah likes musicals
(5) *Oscar enquires that Sarah likes musicals

For sentence (3), you should obtain an f-structure which is identical to that of sentence (1), with the exception that the CLTYPE of (3) should be INTER.

Now make sure that your grammar does not license the following example:

(6) *Oscar thinks whether Sarah likes musicals

This requires the use of a constraining equation in one place!

Note: the solution to this exercise is going to be posted under the name Practical Grammar 6_solution.

Homework

For next week, read pages 102-113 in the textbook.

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