qotw Week 12:

Watch the podcast “Six Steps in a Syntactic Analysis’’ at the ELLO wiki.

The URL to the podcast is:
http://www.elloandfriends.uni-osnabrueck.de/wikis/1/show?n=SyntacticTheory.TGStepsVideo

Present an analysis of the following sentence in which you illustrate these six steps:
(Your analysis should comprise:
- word segmentation
- part of speech assignment
- constituent bracketting (with tests)
- determination of the syntactic categories at all nodes
- identification of the head in each constituent
- identification of the other grammatical functions (specifier, complement, modifier/adjunct)
)

This new movie will fascinate many people.

qotw: Week 11, 12.1.2010 - updated version

Hi!
here is the new version of this week’s question - with two more example sentences:

Watch the podcast “Six Steps in a Syntactic Analysis’’ at the ELLO wiki.

The URL to the podcast is:
http://www.elloandfriends.uni-osnabrueck.de/wikis/1/show?n=SyntacticTheory.TGStepsVideo

Present an analysis of the following sentence in which you illustrate these six steps:
(Your analysis should comprise:
- word segmentation
- part of speech assignment
- constituent bracketting (with tests)
- identification of the head in each constituent
- determination of the syntactic categories at all nodes
)

(1) You’ll never reach the early train to Berlin.

(2) My students should read the new syntax book by Kim over the weekend.

(3) Flying planes can be dangerous. (2 structures!)

qotw: Week 11, 12.1.2010

Watch the podcast “Six Steps in a Syntactic Analysis’’ at the ELLO wiki.

The URL to the podcast is:
http://www.elloandfriends.uni-osnabrueck.de/wikis/1/show?n=SyntacticTheory.TGStepsVideo

Present an analysis of the following sentence in which you illustrate these six steps:

You’ll never reach the early train to Berlin.

qotw: Week 9, 15.12.2009

special question for the 150th aniversary of L.L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto/
okaze de la 150a naskightago de L.L.Zamenhof: Demando pri la morfologio de Esperanto.

I have uploaded a file called qotw-Dec15.pdf at StudIP, in the folder of today’s meeting. This file contains a question on Esperanto morphology, taken from A. Spencer: Morphological Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. 1991, p.35, ex. 1.12.

qotw 8: Morphology

1. Choose a text of about 150 words.

2. Pick a sentence of about 10 words of length from this text. For each word: identify and classify all morphemes in these words as function word (FW), root (R), derivational affix (DA), or inflectional affix (IA).

3. If possible, find two examples for each of the following processes in your text: compounding, derivation, inflection, cliticization. (If this is not possible, make up additional sentences that contain these processes.)

4. Find a word that contains at least four morphemes in your text.

- Send this word to ALL participants of the class via StudIP and say that you will propose an analysis in the ELLO and friends group.

- For this word:
(a) Identify the morphemes,
(b) classifiy them as FW, R, DA, IA
(c) determine the syntactic category of the roots
(e) draw a constitutent structure. Don’t forget to lable the non-terminal nodes (A, N, V, P, Af) and to determine the head in each local tree, if there is one.

- Post your solution in this group! You can use the following format for your posting:

Example from the class: hunters

morphemes: hunt/R -er/DA -s/IA

synt. categories: V:hunt Af:-er Af:-s

morph. structure:
N: hunt-er (head: -er)
N: hunter-s (head: hunter)