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Revision as of 21:40, 29 July 2015

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Participants

  • Ekram Aghdoube
  • Hana Hashi

Short description of the project

Produced material

Task 1

Look at the following sentences and decide, whether the adjectives are used attributively or predicatively.


attributive predicative
Phoebe is pregnant with twins
Rachel is a former waitress
Joey feels faint
Chandler was very hungry after work
Monica wears a summer dress
Ross buys a 30-inch-long monkey


Task 2

Consider the following sentences.

  1. For each of these, provide the syntactic structure.
  2. Write down the logical forms.
  3. Provide a full analysis of the sentences, indicating following values: PHON, HEAD, PRED PLUS, ARG-ST, MOD, DR, INCONT, PARTS.


a. Chandler is humorous.

Check your answer

  1. Syntactic structure caption
  2. Logical form: humorous 1 (chandler)
  3. Lexical entry


| | |humorous |- |PHON | < humorous > |- |HEAD | adjective |- |PRED | <plus> |- |ARG-ST | <NP[DR [c]] > |- |MOD | < > |- |DR |  [a]chandler' |- |INCONT | <'[b]chandler' |- |PARTS | <humorous1, humorous1([a],[b]) >   |- |}

b. The blonde waitress .

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  1. Type of ambiguity: scope ambiguity
  2. Reading 1: every takes scope over a. Paraphrase: For every king there is at least one thane such that the king trusts that thane.
    Reading 2: a takes scope over every. Paraphrase: There is one particular thane such that each king trusts this thane.



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