Jaren Lewis

LING 461 Homework 5

Dec 8, 2010

Chapter 6
Problem Set 2
Adjectives act as adjuncts to nouns. For the adjectives given, “one”-replacement will always
produce a grammatical form such as “the hot one” or “the tiny one”. As “one”-replacement
only works on full constituents, this implies that NP-modifying adjectives are always divorced
at least one level from the lowest N constituent.

Problem Set 7
Example (j)
“The biggest man in the room said that John danced an Irish jig from County Kerry to
County Tipperary on Thursday.” This diagram is of the interpretation that John danced
the jig on Thursday, not that the biggest man in the room mentioned it on Thursday.
CP

C0

C TP
Ø[−Q]

DP T0
D0 T VP
-ed
V0
D NP
The V CP2
N 0 say

N0 PP

AdjP N0 P0

Adj0 N P DP
man in
Adj D0
biggest
D NP
the
N0
N
room
 CP2

C0

C TP
that

DP T0
D0
D NP
∅ T VP
N0 -ed
V0
N
John

V0 PP

P NP
on
N0
0 PP
V
N
P0 Thursday
V0 PP
P NP
V DP P0 to
dance N0
D0 P NP
from N
D NP
a N0
N0 County Tipperary
N
N
jig County Kerry

Chapter 8
Challenge Problem Set 1
a)
The example sentence includes two nouns which would be considered themes: an fear “the
man”, and the pronoun which refers to it é “him”. The theta criterion stipulates that only
one noun in a sentence can receive a given theta role.

b)
The example sentence has no noun to occupy the agent thematic role implied by the verb
rinceamar “dance”.
c)
Based on the phrasing of the translated gloss, the theta criterion problem with this sentence
appears to be that liom “with-me” is an adverb rather than a subject proper, meaning that
there is no actual subject in the sentence to assume the agent thematic role implied by “want
to build”.