Assignment for Syntax III 17 marks

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Assignment for Syntax III (17 marks)

• 1. Underline the subordinate clauses and state
  their syntactic functions. (1 mark each
  total 11 marks)
• i. The best thing would be to tell everybody.?C
• ii. That we need more equipment is obvious.?S
• iii. Hugo said I ought to phone the landlady.?O
• iv. In the middle of the night in the middle of a
  rainy week I woke up and wondered what had
  awakened me.?O

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• v. Rather than have John do it, I'd prefer to
  give
• the job to Mary.?A, Co, O
• vi. She had insisted I call John and ask him
• to bring the document over.?O, Od/Co
• vii. Just as a moth is attracted by a light, so
  was he fascinated by Helen.?A
• viii. Those drones are the laziest devils you
  ever saw.?M

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• 2. Draw a tree diagram for this sentence.
• That old gray cat loved being swung through the
  air. (6 marks)

SVO
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Class Practices for Semantics

• 1. flour and flower are homonyms, and so are
  ground as meaning earth and as the past
  participle of grind.
• 2. State what these senses have in common.
• i. "cup" (1. drinking vessel 2. cup of a flower)
• - Both contain the concept of container usually
  with a particular round shape.
• ii. "ceiling" (1. top inner surface of a room 2.
  upper limit)
• - Both contain the concept of a maximum upper
  boundary.

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• iii. "guard" (1. person who guards, sentinel 2.
  solid protective shield, e.g. around machinery)
• - Both contain the concept of protection against
  danger.
• iv. "chimney" (1. pipe or funnel-like structure
  on a building for smoke to escape through 2.
  narrow vertical space between rocks up which a
  climber can wriggle by pressing against the
  sides)
• - Both contain the concept of a narrow vertical
  shaft in some solid material.

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• 3. State the types of opposition of meaning
  illustrated by the following pairs of words.
• 1. off/on 2. murderer/victim
• 3. chair/sofa 4. still/already
• 5. dark/light 6. triangle/circle
• 7. employer/employee 8. present/absent
• 9. fertile/sterile 10. become/remain
• 1. binary, 2. relational, 3. multiple,
  4. inverse, 5. polar 6. multiple, 7.
  relational, 8. binary, 9. polar, 10. inverse

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Assignment for Semantics (11 marks)

• I. (4 marks)
• i. (a) You have my deep/profound sympathy.
• (b) This river is very deep/profound.
• ii. (a) The house stands at the side/edge of
  the lake.
• (b) Britain and Australia are on opposite
  sides/edges of the world.

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• II. Provide paraphrases for these sentences.
• i. Wanted A man to take care of a cow that does
  not smoke or drink. (Four meanings)
• ii. Time flies like an arrow. (Three meanings)
• i. (4 marks)
• A man that neither smokes nor drinks is wanted to
  take care of a cow.
• A man that either does not smoke or does not
  drink (but not both) is wanted to take care of a
  cow.
• A man is wanted to take care of a cow that
  neither smokes nor drinks.
• A man is wanted to take care of a cow that either
  does not smoke or does not drink (but not both).

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• ii. (3 marks)
• The passage of time is fast, just like a flying
  arrow.
• An object called Time flies like an arrow.
• A kind of insect, Time flies, is fond of an arrow.