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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for HPSG

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

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