Exercise-ch3

Additional Exercises for Chapter 3: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Basic syntactic notions

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

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

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

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

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

Lexical entries as Attribute-Value Matrix

Provide the required information on the lexical properties of the underlined words in the following sentences.
Put a minus ("-") if a slot should not receive any filling

1 Alex read a book yesterday.

|PHON

|SYNSEM | LOCAL | HEAD

| | SUBJ < >

|SPR < >

|COMPS < >

2 Alex talked to a friend.

PHON

HEAD

SUBJ < >

SPR < >

COMPS < >

3 Pat liked this new documentary on African wild life.

PHON

HEAD

SUBJ < >

SPR < >

COMPS < >

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

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