Semantics 1, SoSe 2014: Wiki-based term papers

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The following pages link to material created by students in partial fulfillment of the course requirements for the class Semantics 1, summer term 2014, Frankfurt.

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Syntatic Tree Structure

Why do we need syntactic trees?

Constructing syntacic trees can be rather tricky at the beginning of your linguistic studies. Nonetheless, it is important to understand the structure and apply this knowledge to various sentences by yourself. In order to do so, we have created an introductory video. Enjoy!

Excercises

Task 1

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Which of the following sentences are grammatically correct?

	Harry is wizard.
	Harry lives at Hogwarts.
	Quidditch is played in the wizard world.
	The Chamber of Secrets opened Dumbledore.
	Harry dreams at Voldemort.
	Hermione and Ron are Harry's friends.
	Ron loves Hermione.
	Hufflepuff are Griffindor and houses Hogwarts.

Further Links

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