worksheet about Lingustics

Name_________________________________ ID__________________________ Fall 2016 Ling 3 Homework 6 Note: -2 points if not stapled or double sided. Read instructions carefully. 1. In the space below, draw the s-structure syntactic tree for the question “Where does Lara think the frightening ghost quietly goes every day?” You must use triangles for all NPs and show movement and proper labels. (30 points) Where does Lara think the frightening ghost quietly goes every day? 2. Consider the phrase “The detective saw the man with the telescope”. Draw the tree that would have the paraphrase meaning “the detective used the telescope to see the man”. (20 points) The detective saw the man with the telescope.

3. Consider the sentence “Carlos believes that the new boy likes Huda”, then answer the following questions. (20 points) a. How many subjects does this sentence contain? ________ b. List the subject(s) you found. ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ c. How many direct objects does this sentence contain? ________ d. List direct object(s) you found._______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. For the sentence “Stan may not leave the office before 6 today”, give one paraphrase that is deontic and one paraphrase that is epistemic. (12points) Epistemic meaning: _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Deontic meaning: _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5. Identify the meaning relation exemplified in each example below. (18 points) Possible answers: synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, homophony, contradict, hyponymy, hypernymy, paraphrase, entailment, contradiction a. furniture // sofa ____________________ b. run: verb meaning to walk quickly // run: a point in baseball ____________________ c. Phil owns a dog, but he doesn’t own an animal. ____________________ d. create // destroy ____________________ e. film: a motion picture // film: to be covered by a thin layer ____________________ f. Bill has a college degree // Bill attended college ____________________