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Syntax » Exercises » Ambiguous DPs

Ambiguous DPs

Look at the ambiguous DP below. Draw a tree diagram for each reading.

DP[the king of England's people]

Source of the picture: movieposter.com

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(The example is taken from Radford , A. (1988). Transformational Grammar. A first course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 219)

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