Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 6 James Madison University

1. Draw tree diagrams representing the morphological derivation of each of the following words:
   1. senseless
   2. debriefed
   3. revolving
   4. nonverbally
2. Using just the eight somewhat simplified phrase structure rules on page 133 in your text, attempt to draw tree diagrams for each of the following sentences:
   1. The rooster crowed.
   2. The cooks spoiled the broth.
   3. The alien walked into our classroom. [Hint: "Our" is a determiner. Look up "into" if you're not sure of its word class. :) ]
   4. My friend believes that our dogs talk.
   [Give this your best shot. Note that "my" is also a determiner and "that" is a complementizer. ]
3. Ask a friend (a native speaker of English, please) to describe all the subgroupings of words that he/she thinks go together in the c and d sentences above. Don't tell your friend any rules or make suggestions; just write down what he or she says. Do your friend's intuitions match with the groupings made by the phrase structure rules?

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