Assignment 1 – Syntax 2016 (v 1.0) Due: 4pm Friday 9 September 2016 submited on LMS Total Marks: 25 Part 1 (22 marks) You are taking a leisurely stroll in a park on an unusually nice day in Melbourne. Suddenly, in front of you, a rainbow-coloured wormhole opens and a stream of coton-ball creatures emerge. Before you know it, they have surrounded you and are dragging you back with them through the wormhole. Back in their coton-ball universe, the creatures lock you in a cell, to be used as a specimen to study humankind. In your tme as their prisoner, you notce that the door opens with voice actvaton, but there doesn't seem to be a set password to unlock it. You then realise that the only way to open the very sturdy, unbreakable coton-ball door is to say a grammatcally correct sentence in the language of coton-balls. In order to escape, you begin listening to the guards talking outside, and write down sentences that you hear them say. (Thanks to Andrew Wang, Leanne Loong) 1. twitwi bulanygu 2. nyangara wita tjarinygu 3. nyangara witangku kurlpulka kurlaturnu 4. trinu nyangara manyma twitwingku 5. kangku makatnygu witangku durlkangku 6. wita trinu kurlpulkangku 7. twitwingku aamban pyanygu parnangka 8. tjarinygu twitwi 9. aambantu twitwi makatnygu 10. twitwi nyanygu nyangara parnangka 11. mariktu kurlaturnu nyangara kurlpulka durlka 12. nyanygu pika ngurrangka 13. nyangara pikangku nyangara twitwi durlka patjarnu 14. kangku bulanygu 15. manyma marnwakurpa bulanygu 16. nyanygu pika marnwakurpa 17. wita durlka bulanygu 18. kurlpulkangku durlkangku nyangara kangku trinu 19. tjarinygu kurlpulka 20. witangku ngalyakatnygu kurlpulka 21. nyangara witangku nyangara twitwi pyanygu 22. pikangku patjarnu nyangara twitwi 23. nyangara manyma bulanygu 24. marik bulanygu 25. nyangara twitwi durlka tjarinygu 26. kangkungku walykarmunungku pika pyanygu 27. wita yikarinygu 28. nyangara manyma bulanygu ngurrangka 1 of 329. aamban yikarinygu 30. twitwi walykarmunu yikarinygu 31. pikangku twitwi patjarnu ngurrangka 32. wita bulanygu 33. witangku kurlpulka duranygu ngurrangka 34. bulanygu wita walykarmunu 35. patjarnu nyangara twitwi pikangku 36. *manyma nyangara bulanygu 37. *walykarmunu pika tjarinygu 38. *nyangara twitwi pikangku patjarnu 39. *tjarinygu walykarmunu pika 40. *wita twitwi patjarnu 41. *kurlpulkangku tjarinygu 42. *twitwingku durlkangku pika duranygu 43. *nyangara marik bulanygu 44. *aambantu durlkangku twitwi pyanygu 45. *nyangara bulanygu 46. *parnangka twitwi patjarnu 47. *durlka bulanygu wita QUESTIONS: You need to provide a grammar of this language that allows me to generate only grammatcal sentences. So please provide: 1. A lexicon, divided into word classes and morphology using a format like the ones we've used in class. E.g., : N = {cat, dog, cow, man} Nmorph = {-s} Adj = {red, big, old} etc You will need to assign labels to your word classes. These may be arbitrary labels (A, B, C; 1, 2, 3) rather than part of speech labels like N above (at this point). 2. Syntactc and morphological evidence for the establishment of each word class. 3. Your hypotheses about what parts of speech (i.e. labels such as N, V etc.) can be identfed with your formally determined word classes. Give your evidence: you may want to make reference to the evidence mentoned in (2) or to other arguments. 4. A statement of what constructon types occur, i.e. which combinatons of word classes can go together to form grammatcal strings. • Give a set of Phrase Structure Rules, like A -> B C. • If you use phrases, justfy them. 2 of 3• Then describe in prose any regularites which cannot be easily captured by the Phrase Structure Rules. 5. Draw a phrase structure tree for example 13 above based on the phrase structure rules you gave in (4). 6. Explain why you think sentence (38) is ungrammatcal. Part 2 (3 marks) In the lectures, we have treated English nouns, proper nouns and pronouns as belonging to separate, but related, syntactc categories. Drawing upon the terminology used in class and using syntactc, morphological and semantc arguments, justfy this analysis. 3 of 3