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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.
Task 2
Consider the following sentences.
- For each of these, provide the syntactic structure.
- Write down the logical forms.
- 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
b. The blonde waitress .
Check your answer
- Type of ambiguity: scope ambiguity
- 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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