Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences S6 Linguistics Prof. Boudali Kenitra « Syntax test June 14,2016 Time: 1:30 hours ‘Use the Multiple Choice Question answer sheet and put a cross (x) in the box corresponding to the correct answer for each question on the exam sheet. Note: Some questions may have more than one correct answer, ‘The last questions (Q21) should be answered separately, Good luck! . 4. Which of the following groups of words are not phrases in: The smart student passed all his exams briltiantly. A. smart student VC. student passed all his exams WB. the smart student passed 9. his exams brilliantly Q2. Which of the following phrases are ambiguous? WA. the generative linguistics teacher WC. the French teacher B. the tall linguistics student D. the Australian teacher Q3, Language acquisition is thg process of = A. gaining conscious linguistic knowledge C. discovering Linguistic rules ‘VB. gaining unconscious linguistic knowledge D. discovering imegularities in language 4, A grammar that accounts for every sentence in a corpus is A explanatorily adequate C. prescriptively adequate B, descriptively adequate Y 0, observationally adequate Q5. A grammar that accounts for all the sentences in a corpus as well as possible sentences not in the corpus A. explanatorily adequate . prescriptively adequate VB. descriptively adequate D. observationally adequate Q6, Which of the underlined group(s) of words are complements in the following sentence? A She talked to her friends about her problems. /C. He seemed quite happy. VB. The social sciences teacher is very friendly. D. He spoke rather quickly. Q7, Which of the underlined group(s) of words are adjuncts? A. Ali's brother lost his syntax notes C. She really deserves what she got. VB. He walked under the bridge. D. She deserves the punishment that she got. Q8, In determining word categories, morphological distribution of a linguistic item refers to ‘A the position it can occupy in the sentence. V C. the particular affixes it can take, B. the syntactic position it can occupy in a D. the grammatical functions it can play ina phrase. sentence, Q8, If two linguistic items are in complementary distribution, they A. belong to different categories. . are both phrasal categories. VB belong to the same category. D. are both lexical categories. Q40. In English, in a phrase with one adjunct and one complement, the adjunct modifies A. the immediately preceding complement, VG. the head of the phrase. B, the Specifier of the phrase. D. None of the above. It is independent. 41, The sentence “*The boy; say’ that the girl likes himself? is ungrammatical because A The antecedent does not e-command the V ©. The anaphor and antecedent are not clause anaphor. mates. B. The anaphor is not bound by the antecedent. D. The anaphor and antecedent have the same index. Page 1/2Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences $6 Linguistics Prof. Boudali Kenitra Syntax test June 14, 2016 42, Which of the statemeni(s) hold) true of the structure? *Ali thinks that [his new neighbour];’s daughter is really fond of himself. YA The anaphor is not bound in its binding ©. The anaphor is coindexed and c-commanded domain. by the antecedent B, The antecedent and the anaphor are not D, The antecedent e-commands the anaphor. within the samé clause. Q43, Which of the phrase structure rules does not conform to the X-bar schema? VAYP > V? Adve veT > DPT VP BN’ > N PP oc > Cc TP Q44 A phrase may consist of V, A-ahead by itself, C2 adjuncts B. a head and a complement D. an adjunct and a complement 45 Syntactic trees represent (Select all correct answers) A. grammatical relations like ‘Subject of C. the collocational relations between the “Object of and “Adjunct,to’ elements of the phrase. B. thematic relations like ‘Agent’, ‘Patient’, 4/D. the internal structure of the phrase. “Theme” and “Instrument” Q16. Which of the following phrase structure rule is recursive? A. DP> DPD’ VC.N’ > N’ PP B.D’ > DNP ON’ > NPP 47, Consider the labelled bracketed phrase: [ vr AdvPI [ v [ v V DP2 ] AdvP?2 J] Select the statements that apply to the structure. A. DP? is an adjunct in V". ¢. AdvP2 and DP2 are sisters VB. V and DP2 are sisters, VD. AdvPl isa Specifier Q 18, Consider the following tree structure (1) and select the relevant statement(s) A DP1 is the Specifier of NP WB. NP is the complement of D. C. AdjP is the Specifier of N. D.N is the head of DP. Q@) Q19. Which group(s) of words form a constituent in adi q? 4 4 e A. [expensive book] sive DP et eAets besie VB. [syntax book]. syntax ©. [expensive syntax}. D. [Ali's]. Q20. Which of the phrase structure rules does not conform to the X-bar schema? AVP > V? Adve vet > DPT vP BN’ > N PP ac > c 1? 24, (To be answered separately) In 2 paragraphs and using any two diagnostic tests, argue that the first underlined group of words (1) do not form a constituent whereas the second underlined group of words (2) form a constituent. The student looked (1) up the word (2) in the dictionary. Page 2/2