Syntax II Spring 2012 Assignment 10 Due Friday May 11 I. Now For Something A Little Bit Hard The following examples (and others like them) illustrate something new about the constructions we have investigated in the past few weeks. (1) *Which book did Sue meet the man who Bill said wrote? (2) *Whose theory about islands could Jim have been wondering which class he should introduce in? (3) *The can that the pearls that the woman put in were stolen has disappeared. (4) *What kind of listening device did the police arrest the man who installed in the men's restroom? (5) *We fired the employee who nobody could figure out how much money had stolen. First, show that these sentences are generated by your grammar; or if you think they are not, show exactly why not. If they are, what generalization can you state about what is going wrong? II. A Possible Explanation How much of what you observed in Part I would be accounted for if we assume that all movements are successive cyclic?