ITL Tutorial 9 (WS25/26)

The ideal syntactic theory...

• ...has as few rules as possible.

• ...predicts ungrammatical sentences as grammatical.

• ...can make predictions for every sentence of a language.

• ...says that all sentences must be meaningful.

Mask has found thousands of millions in good condition under the bridge. This sentence is...

• Syntatically wrong, semantically correct.

• Syntatically correct, semantically wrong.

• Syntactically wrong, semantically wrong.

• Syntactically correct, semantically correct.

What syntactic category does "theoretically" fit in?

• Adjective

• Degree word

• Adverb

• Determiner

And which of these is a complementizer?

• surely

• whether

• and

• will

Mark all categories that "tank" can fit in!

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

Mark all adverbs!

• slowly

• symphony

• hasty

• truthfully

Which of these is not a test to determine a word's category?

• Inflection

• Distribution

• Derivation

• Meaning

Which of these are obligatory components of every sentence?

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Predicative

"I hungrily ___ the ___." What is this sentence missing?

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Adverbial

"I would have thought he could manage to accomplish what he said he would."
How man auxiliaries does this sentence feature?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5