How to proceed
- Unit Advice (PDF)
Central Topics
- Arguments for bar-level categories
- The X-bar scheme
- The internal structure of phrasal and clausal categories
- Head-initial, head-final and mixed-type languages
| No. | Question | ChatGPT |
| 1. | What is the central idea of X' syntax? | 10 |
| 2. | Discuss the internal structures of CP, IP, NP, VP, AP and PP. | 8 |
| 3. | Outline the central implications of the physcial view of the phoneme. | 10 |
| 4. | Find examples for head-first, head-final and mixed-type languages. | 10 |
| 5. | Why are APs sister to N' and not to N? | 10 |
| 6. | Provide examples for adjuncts and complements using the sentence: My boyfriend from London visited me last year. |
10 |
| 7. | What implications does the X-bar scheme have for the organization of the grammar? | 10 |
| 8. | How does X-bar theory account for different ordering patterns of specifiers, adjuncts, and complements across languages? | 10 |
| 9. | Draw trees for the following sentences: Bond hopes that Q will give him a new car. My little sister grew up very quickly. |
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Practice the construction of more trees!
| Recommendations for ChatGPT use: It is possible to master the whole topic via interaction with ChatGPT - with one exception: the drawing of syntactic trees. Furthermore, the analysis of the some phrasal categories is not perfect. Overall ChatGPT recommendation value: 8 (of 10) |
References
Carnie, Andrew. 2007: 107-142.
Haegeman, Liliane. 1994: 83-123.
Ouhalla, Jamal. 1999: 109-145.
Radford, Andrew et al. 2009: 282-291.
Verspoor / Sauter. 2000: Chapters I , II + V.