Semantics 1, SoSe 2016 (Sailer): Week 8

Basic syntactic notions

The following exercises are copied from the wiki page for exercises to chapter 3.

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Det, N, P, V

a. Alex/ talked/ to/ my/ best/ friend/ .

b. You/ might/ suspect/ that/Comp Pat/ is/ a/ genius/ .

c. The/ title/ of/ a/ book/ largely/ determines/ whether/Comp it/ will/ be/ successful/ or/ a/ flop/ .

Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Determine the syntactic categories of the following groups of words in the sentences.
Use the following labels: AdvP, AP, NP, PP, S, VP.
Example: [S: Pat [VP: will [VP: wait [PP: for Alex]]]]

a. [ Alex [ talked [ to [ my best friend]]]]

b. [ [ The president] [ announced [CP: that [ there [ will [ be [ no further taxes]]]]]]].

Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Six steps in a syntactic analysis

There is an old video on the 6 steps in syntactic analysis. The final analysis of the example sentence looks slightly different from what we assume in our class.

The tree we would draw in this class looks like this:

What are the differences?

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