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    1) The document discusses adjectives modifying nouns and implies that adjectives are separated by at least one level from the lowest noun constituent based on "one"-replacement tests. 2) It provides an example sentence diagram with the interpretation that John danced the jig on Thursday, not that the man said it happened on Thursday. 3) It discusses thematic roles in sentences, noting that the theta criterion stipulates only one noun can receive a given theta role, and provides examples where sentences are missing agents implied by the verbs.

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    1) The document discusses adjectives modifying nouns and implies that adjectives are separated by at least one level from the lowest noun constituent based on "one"-replacement tests. 2) It provides an example sentence diagram with the interpretation that John danced the jig on Thursday, not that the man said it happened on Thursday. 3) It discusses thematic roles in sentences, noting that the theta criterion stipulates only one noun can receive a given theta role, and provides examples where sentences are missing agents implied by the verbs.

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    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”.

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