Interrogatives: --------------- Who did Sandy see? *Who Sandy saw? Who did Sandy think she saw? I wonder who Sandy saw. *I wonder who did Sandy see. Who saw Kim? *Who did see Kim? Who can see Kim? Who D�D see Kim? Who saw WH�T? Who gave WH�T to WH�M? -- Not sure if ditransitives are tractable now. What did WH� give to WH�M? -- " To whom did WH� give WH�T? -- " Who wondered who saw WH�T? -- " Who the hell left? *Kim read WH�T the hell? *Who saw WH�T the hell? Kim saw WH�? Who wondered what WH� saw? -- Deeply ambiguous, check it out *Who wondered what did who see? Who saw WH�T? Kim is angry? Is Kim angry? I wonder what annoyed them. I wonder whose cousin they saw. How angry they are! What a fool Kim is! -- Is the semantics ok on this guy? *What a fool is kim! How big a book it is! How big a book is it? -- Issues I wonder whose cousin's friend's mother's uncle ate the bagel. I wonder whose cousin's friend's mother's uncle ate which bagel. I wonder how angry Kim is. *I wonder the pictures of who Kim drew. I wonder whose pictures (of Sandy) Pat likes. I wonder whose friend's pictures (of Sandy) Pat likes. *I wonder pictures of Pat they were admiring. *I wonder pictures of whom they were admiring. I wonder who the hell's pictures they were admiring. ?I wonder whose the hell pictures they were admiring. Nice paradigm: They were admiring pictures of who? *Pictures of who they were admiring? They were admiring whose pictures? Whose pictures were they admiring? *They were admiring pictures of who the hell? *Pictures of how big a book they can see! *Pictures of what a cat they drew! I wondered whose cousin she was trying to be. I wonder how big a fool he can be. I wonder to whom they gave books. I wonder to whose friends they gave books. To how big a child they gave books! To how big a child's class they gave books! Nice paradigm: *I wonder about what this book is. *I wonder in how big a class they were. I wonder how big a class they were in. I wonder what this book is about. I wonder how happy Sandy is. How happy is Sandy? Sandy is how happy? Auxiliaries: ------------ Normal: *Kim did see the dog. Kim DID see the dog. Kim can eat apples. Kim has eaten apples. Kim would eat apples. Finite Negation: Kim did not see the dog. Kim can not eat apples. Kim has not eaten apples. Kim has not not eaten apples. *Kim has not not not eaten apples. *Kim likes not the dog. Kim would not. Kim can not. Kim may not. Inversion: Has kim eaten apples? Has kim not eaten apples? *Has not kim eaten apples? Did kim not eat apples? -- Note focused do but not do-foc and fin neg. DID kim not eat apples? *Left Kim? *Left not Kim? *Left Kim not? Contraction: Kim shouldnt eat apples. Kim couldnt have eaten apples. Kim hasnt seen a dog. Hasnt Kim seen a dog? VP-Ellipses: Sandy is. Sandy is not. Sandy couldnt. Affirmatives (problems with this): Kim should SO eat apples. Kim did TOO eat apples. Kim can SO see the dog. Constituent negation: Kim appears not to have left. Kim appears to not have left. Kim appears to have not left. *Kim appears to have not not left. *Kim appears to have left not. *Kim appears not to not have not not left. Kim has not appeared not to eat apples. *Kim not left. *Kim has appeared to like not Sandy. I asked him to not leave. *Kim has not not. Kim appears to not. Idiosyncracies: *I aren't leaving. Aren't I leaving. Wide scope: I would not like the apple. I will not like apples. Narrow: I should not like apples. I shall not like apples. Variation in meaning: I shall leave. Shall I leave? Variation in scope: Kim mightnt leave. Mightnt Kim leave? Scope ambiguity: I may not leave. Do: *Kim did leave. Kim DID leave. Kim did not leave. Did kim not leave? Kim did SO leave. Kim did. Does Kim like dogs? Does Kim like dogs! Stacking: *Kim must will leave. *Sandy is mighting leave. *Kim has willed gone to the class. *Kim is having left. *Kim is being being a dog. Don't have: Coordination and tag sentences Obviously and always and other such modifiers. CP Taking things: ----------------- Proposition selecting: Sandy claims Kim sees the dog. Sandy claims that Kim sees the dog. Sandy claims to see the dog. *Sandy claims for Kim to see the dog. *Sandy claims Kim see the dog. *Sandy claims that Kim see the dog. Finite Proposition Selecting: I believe Kim ate the bagel. I believe that Kim ate the bagel. *I believe to eat the bagel. *I believe for Kim to eat the bagel. *I believe Kim eat the bagel. *I believe that Kim eat the bagel. Outcome selecting: Sandy prefers to sleep. Sandy prefers for Kim to sleep. Sandy prefers that Kim sleep. Sandy prefers Kim sleep. *Sandy prefers Kim sleeps. *Sandy prefers that Kim sleeps. Finite Outcome Selecting: Sandy insists Kim taste the apple. Sandy insists that Kim taste the apple. *Sandy insists Kim tastes the apple. *Sandy insists that Kim tastes the apple. *Sandy insists to taste the apple. *Sandy insists for Kim to taste the apple. Infinitive Outcoming Selecting (control only): Sandy tried to drink a martini. *Sandy tried for Kim to drink a martini. *Sandy tried Kim drink a martini. *Sandy tried that Kim drink a martini. *Sandy tried Kim drinks a martini. *Sandy tried that Kim drinks a martini. Fact Selecting: Sandy discovered Kim left. Sandy discovered that Kim left. Sandy discovered what an artist Kim is. Sandy discovered how magnificent a linguist Kim can be. Sandy discovered how magnificent a linguist Kim's sister can try to be. Sandy discovered Kim eats bagels. *Sandy discovered Kim eat bagels. *Sandy discovered to eat bagels. *Sandy discovered for Kim to eat bagels. Question selecting: Sandy wonders whether Kim ate the bagels. Sandy wonders if Kim ate the bagels. Sandy wonders whether to eat the bagels. Those bagels Sandy wonders whether to eat. *Sandy wonders Kim ate the bagels. *Sandy wonders Kim eat the bagels. *Sandy wonders if to eat the bagels. Imperatives: ------------ Go in the barn! Eat the bagel! Everyone eat a bagel! *Everyone eats a bagel! Everyone eats a bagel.