Practical Grammar 9

Functional Control

In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties.

Exercise 9.1 (based on section pages 102-103 and 108-110 of the textbook)

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

(4) Ingrid seemed to buy olives.

(2) Ingrid seemed to buy olives

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