Homework 3

We have seen that our syntactic expressions can be viewed as lists of string-feature bundle pairs. We can call these lists (syntactic) chains. In addition, our syntactic operations can be stated directly in terms of chains.

Guidelines

Feel free to work together as much as you’d like. However, if you work together with someone else , each of you must write up their own homework. Furthermore, please include the names of all people you worked together with, in the homework.

Assignment

part 1

Using the lexical items below, provide a step-by-step tree-based derivation of the sentence: Bill knows who John will visit:

word	features		word	features
Bill, John	\(\textrm{d}.\texttt{-}\textrm{k}\)		visit	\(\texttt{=}\textrm{d}.\texttt{+}\textrm{k}.\textrm{d}\texttt{=}.\textrm{v}\)
who	\(\textrm{d}.\texttt{-}\textrm{k}.\texttt{-}\textrm{w}\)		Q	\(\texttt{=}\textrm{s}.\texttt{+}\textrm{w}.\textrm{q}\)
knows	\(\texttt{=}\textrm{q}.\textrm{d}\texttt{=}.\texttt{+}\textrm{k}.\textrm{s}\)		will	\(\texttt{=}\textrm{v}.\texttt{+}\textrm{k}.\textrm{s}\)

part 2

For each step of the derivation, write down the expression derived at that step as a chain: a sequence of string-feature bundle pairs. The first element of the chain should consist of the head’s feature bundle, and the non-moving parts of the head’s maximal projection, and the remaining chain elements should be the pronounced parts of the moveing constituents together with their feature bundles.