Theoretical Grammar (Seminar 5)

Forms with different meanings in the same position are in … distribution.

• contrastive

• non-contrastive

• complementary

The Distributional Model presents the sentence as a

• derivation tree

• analytical diagram

• sequence of classes of words

State which word classes can fit in position (a):

The …(a)…  smiled … (b)… .

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

State which word classes can fit in position (b):

The …(a)…  smiled … (b)… .

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

The immediate constituents of the sentence are:

• words

• noun phrase and verb phrase

• morphemes

If from the lake is a noun modifier, the immediate constituents of the verb phrase are:    

• a) I watched / the swan from the lake.

•  b) I watched the swan / from the lake.

The drawback of the IC-model is that it fails

• to show the syntactic relations of sentence constituents

• to discriminate between identical syntactic structures with hidden semantic differences

• to show the linear order of sentence elements

The basic notions of transformational model are

• classes of words and distribution

• kernel sentences and transformations

• immediate and ultimate constituents

Choose the kernel sentence:

• a) The cat slept.  

• b)  The cat slept on the mat. 

• c) The fluffy cat did not sleep.

Match the following sentence with the two kernel structures it has been generated from:

Kitty is anxious to paint.

• a) Kitty paints.  

• b) Somebody paints Kitty.  

• c) Kitty is anxious.   

• d) It is pleasant.