Exercise 1 Word order (4 pts) 1. The two most common overall word orders are and
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Exercise 1 Word order (4 pts) 1. The two most common overall word orders are and 2. Regardless of the position of the verb (V), there is a strong tendency across the six pos- sible overall word orders to have before Exercise 2 Syntactic tendencies (2 pts) The following set of phrase structure rules describes the order of constituents in the sentences o f a hypothetical lang uage. SNP VP NP-Adj N According to the word order correlations presented in lecture, what aspect of this language's word order is not typical? VPNP PP V PP P NP Exercise 3Language change (7 pts) 1. The Great Vowel Shift (GVS) is a well-studied sound change phenomenon which oc- curred between 1400 and 1600. Describe what occurred in the shift in a couple/few sentences, making reference to specific phones. 2. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" at a time before the GVS had oc- curred. Given the following words, their modern pronunciations, and your knowledge of the shift, predict what the pre-GVS pronunciations of each word would have been and write it in IPA. (Only the vowels in the middle will change; do not worry about trailing 'e' in the spelling. Assume that each word was affected by the GVS.) (a) Modern: goose [gu:s] (b) Modern: meet mi:t] Pre-GVS (c) Modern: boot bu:t Pre-GVS (d) Modern: mine [maIn] Pre-GVS: (e) Modern: louse laus] Pre-GVSExplanation / Answer
The two most common word orders are verb and objects. The verb describes an object. Thus, it follows in the same order. Verb follows the description of the object. For instance, the sentence, ‘Maria is sowing seeds in the soil’. The verb here is sowing and the object is seeds. Sowing is an action which describes the object, seeds. Thus, the correct answer is verb and object.
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