SoSe15: Term paper project: Predicative and Attributive Adjectives

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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]
INCONT   [b]
PARTS  <humorous1, humorous1([a], [b]) >  

b. The blonde waitress .

Check your answer

  1. Syntactic structure: caption
  2. Logical form:
  3. Lexical entry



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