Ling 55	Spring 09

			Assignment 5
			Due Monday, April 13

A.  What is 'his' in "I broke his neck"
and why do you think so?

B.  (1)  {[the farmer]'s duck} died.

    (2)  I scared {[the Queen of England]'s cat}.

    (3)  {[[my uncle]'s monkey]'s fleas} are numerous.

    (4)  {[the man from Omaha]'s bid} was low.

1.  What are the underlined ({}) things in (1)-(4)?

2.  What are the boxed ([]) things?

3.  Modify the NP rule so that sentences like these will be
generated, respecting the decisions you made above about phrase
structure (answers to questions 1 & 2).

Then draw the trees for (1)-(4) according to your revised grammar.


C. If the following are generated by our grammar, draw their structures:

	(5) The monkey's aged mother's rabidly conservative uncle wrote
	     a short story.

	(6) A very big man with a very bad attitude's dog's escape from
	     its supposedly secure cage made the public nervous.

D.  The following sentence is four ways ambiguous, and none of the
interpretations represent things that anyone would want to say.  Explain this.

	(7) The daughter of Pharaoh's son is the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

Don't forget to write your answers out in complete English sentences
and paragraphs, even (even especially) when the answer involves a tree
or a grammatical rule.

HINT: Draw trees!