Answers to Further Exercises: Chapter 1.

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Answers to Further Exercises: Chapter 1.

Exercise 1.1.(1)(a) [what evil] vs. (b) [evil men]. Notice the different stress patterns: in (a) the stress falls on the head of the NP what EVil; in (b) the stress falls on the head of the NP evil MEN.(2) (a) [rotten fruit] vs. (b) [rotten [fruit and veg]]. In (a) rotten modifies only fruit (= vegetables and rotten fruit) but in (b) it modifies fruit and veg – the veg as well as the fruit are rotten.(3)(a) [[more interesting] vs. (b) [interesting meals]. In (a) more is an adjective modifier in AP (meals that are more interesting). In (b) more is quantificational, modifying a nominal constituent (more meals that are interesting).(4)(a) [workers on overtime] vs. (b) [[agreement (between workers)] on overtime]. In (a) it is the workers that are on overtime (it’s an agreement between such workers). In (b) it’s an overtime agreement.(5)(a) [the man who he had seen] vs. (b) [[asked] [the man] [who he had seen]]. The question is whether [who he had seen] forms a constituent with the man (as in (a), where it is a modifier in the structure of NP- a relative clause). In (a) we know who Bill asked (the man who he had seen) but not what question he asked him. In (b) the man and who he had seen are separate constituents: who he had seen is the question Bill asked the man.Exercise 1.2.

PHRASE

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PHRASE PHRASE

t he PHRASE are PHRASE new students very worried

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Answers to Further Exercises: Chapter 2.

Exercise 2.1.(a)[ I ] [am accepting your invitation] (b)[The income received from fines] [can’t be taken into account] (c)[Grishkin and the man in brown] [are in league] (d)[A gorilla swinging about in the trees above our heads] [interrupted this already lengthy story] (e)[One day] [will be enough for this job]

(f)[all this] [will be yours]. Extra constituents: [One day] and [my boy].

(g)[Next Sunday or the Sunday after that] [would be convenient dates] (h)[your dancing and colourful language] [are frightening the guests]

Extra constituent: [Regrettably]

(i)[The existence of stars of such extreme density that not even light can escape them] [has not been doubted recently] (j)[The temptation to identify less than the whole of the relevant phrase] [crops up in all constituent analysis] (k)[No one who accepted that invitation to visit the slaughterhouse] [found it quite as enjoyable as you] (l)[A lengthy discussion about the unreliability and irrelevance of parental advice] [followed] (m) [The many meetings in Downing Street between the Prime Minister and other leaders involved in the crisis] [have failed to yield any solution acceptable to them or to the United Nations] Exercise 2.2.Phrase (1) = tree (d).Phrase (2) = tree (b).Phrase (3) = tree (b).Phrase (4) = tree (a).Phrase (5) = tree (c).

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Exercise 2.3.

(a) PHRASE (b) PHRASE word PHRASE word PHRASE students word word students PHRASE PHRASE doing chemistry word word word word doing chemistry in September (c) PHRASE

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word PHRASE word word students word PHRASE doing chemistry with word word long hair (d) PHRASE word PHRASE several PHRASE PHRASE word word word word very noisy newspaper vendors (e) PHRASE word PHRASE ten PHRASE PHRASE word word word PHRASE fully automatic deluxe word word hair driers

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