Syntactic Theory

Exercises for Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Like in all other modules of ELLO, the exercises in this section are grouped thematically. There are three levels of difficulty, marked by different colors:

• green: easy
• orange: moderate
• red: difficult

CFG (Context-free Phrase Structure Grammar)

• Generating Sentences

Constituent Structure

• Identify the Grammar Rules

Selection

• Determine ARG-ST and VAL values

Binding Theory in Prepositional Phrases

• Argument Structure

• Binding Principles

• Ungrammatical Sentences

Passive

• Properties of the Active - Passive Relation

• Explaining the Passive Lexical Rule

• Deriving a Passive Participle

• Tree Structure was chased