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Constituency tests. Using the test sentence provided below, identify various syntactic constituents using the constituency tests demonstrated in class and in your readings. Make sure to indicate your grammaticality judgment (use ?*? if you judge the outcome as ungrammatical). If you are a non-native speaker of English and unsure of your intuitions, ask a friend for theirs.
Test sentence: Peter gave this lecture in the classroom.
(a) (4 points) Identify at least four strings of words2 that should be considered syntactic constituents in the example sentence. You must provide an example of the constituency test(s) and the rationale you used in order to come to your conclusions.
(b) (4 points) Identify at least four strings of words that should not be considered syntactic constituents in the example sentence. You must provide an example of the constituency test(s) and the rationale you used in order to come to your conclusions.
Example: Buffy staked this vampire in the cemetery (Substitution) ? * Buffy staked this vampire in
the cemetery and Faith did vampire in the library.
Therefore, there is no pro-form for the string staked this, neither could we move it to any other position
and we conclude that the string is not a constituent. 1.In the sentence “Peter gave this lecture in the classroom” the string is not a constituent. Tests “Peter gave this lecture… View the full answer

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