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Conjunctive NPs in Montague Grammars
I'm considering the sentence
Some man and some woman visited a garden
Obviously it's not 100% unambiguous how many gardens there are, but I think most people would agree there is just one common ...
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Is 'should' a Tense?
I'm trying to write a syntax tree structure of a sentence with the word 'should'. It's a long sentence, so to simply, let's take this sentence instead:
I should play the piano.
I'm not sure ...
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Having trouble drawing a tree diagram
I'm having trouble drawing a tree diagram for the following sentence:
Chrissy believed that the earrings she bought for Sue were real silver.
In the task we have to divide the sentence into its ...
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Basic syntax notation
I'm a first-semester student in linguistics and I was wondering what the differences are between the following trees:
(1) and (2)
My course notes seem to stick with the first kind of notation but ...
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Syntax: How can this tree be built?
I am working through "Contemporary Linguistics" on my own. It's been going pretty well, but I have a question about building syntax trees.
I understand the tree here for "The dog might bite that ...
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How are syntax trees drawn for these sentences? [closed]
I have drawn some syntax trees but I'm not sure they are correct. Is there any mistake? And if so, where?
For the first sentence "The design has big squares and circles" I made two tries:
The ...
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Syntax trees for unaccusatives, unergatives and ergatives verbs (MP) within the split VP framework
The course I'm taking is based on Radford's Analysing English Sentences (2009). I'm having a lot of trouble analysing sentences within the split VP framework. There are very few examples in the book ...
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Immediate constituent analysis
Practicing immediate constituent analysis using a "toy" context-free phrase structure grammar of English is a great way to introduce undergraduate students to syntactic analysis. In the context of a ...
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Do “only if…” and “if… only then…” have the same LF representation?
I'm currently writing a term paper where I am comparing if... then..., only if..., and if... only then... statements.
I've noticed that only if p q and if p, only then q have the same truth ...
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How often does an individual encounter a novel linguistic construction?
I've heard it said that most utterances we encounter on a day-to-day basis are novel. That is, the individual has never heard that exact sentence before in their life.
My intuition is that the ...
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Syntax trees for sentences
I am having trouble drawing a syntax tree for 3 sentences and I would appreciate it if someone could help me.
The sentences are:
This giraffe reads books about psychopharmacology.
Monarchs will fly ...
