The Syntax Workbook: A Companion to Carnie’s Syntax (2013)

Errata
Thanks to Rebecca Drinkall, Jiang Ling, Alexander Robertson, and Carson Schütze for
pointing out some of these mistakes.

Table of contents.

The correct title of chapter 8 is “Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory”

Chapter 1
page 8, line under 6). Is there is ⟶ is there

page 9, line 10: italic be should be non-italic be

Chapter 3
page 26, answer to WBE1, (b). noisy ⟶ nosey

page 26, answer to WBE1, (b). disruptive ⟶ flat-footed

page 29, just below b): trashy novels → in the bath

page 35, WBE9 tree 2): delete stray “NP”

page 37, answer to WBE11 (c). Missing the CP rule CP ⟶ (C) TP

Chapter 4
page 40, WBE4; PP2 ⟶ PP2

Chapter 5

page 46, WBE2 first sentence: “noun” → “NP”

page 49, WBE3: b) and e): himself → myself

Page 50: The names in the answers to WBE5c are incorrect. The correct answers are:

WBE5. BINDING DOMAIN

c) Trevor = antecedent
himself = anaphor
Binding domain = that Trevor is eating himself out of house and home.
Chapter 6

Page 63: In the answer to WBE7c, under the second PP, it should be a P’ not a P

Page 62: the answer to WBE6e is missing.

WBE6 Tree drawing 1: NPs

3)
NP

D N’
some
N’ PP

N’ PP P’

N P’ P NP
equipment in
P NP D N’
with the
N’ N
lab
AdjP N’

Adj’ N

Adj
WBE7. TREE DRAWING 2: VPS
c) There are two possible trees for this VP:
VP

V’

V’ PP

AdvP V’ P’

Adv’ V NP P NP
eats in
Adv N’ N’
often
AdjP N’ N PP
front
Adj’ N P’
ice-cream
Adj P NP
spinach of
N’

N
me

Page 69: Change the answer to WBE10a to the following:

WBE10. COMMON MISTAKES IN TREE DRAWING

a) Mistake 1: The PP is drawn in as a specifier (on the right). It should be
daughter of N’ and sister to N’, which makes it an adjunct

Page 70: Answer to WBE11(6) is missing:

WBE11. JAPANESE PARAMETERS
6)
TP

NP VP

N’ V’

N NP V
Toru-ga mita
D N’
sono
AdjP N’

Adj’ N
hon-o
Adj
akai

Chapter 7

Page 83: The following tree is missing from the answer to WBE9b:
b) CP

C’

C TP
Ø
DP T’

DP D’ T VP
Ø[past]
D’ D NP V’
‘s
D NP N’ V CP
the ensured
N’ AdjP N’ C’

N Adj’ N PP C TP
restaurant bottles that
Adj P’ DP T’
unlabeled
P DP D’ T VP
of Ø
D’ D NP V’
the
D NP N’ V DP
Ø had
N’ AdjP N’ D’

N Adj’ N D NP
spices ice-cream a
Adj N’
spinach
AdjP N’

Adj’ N
aftertaste
Adj
funny
It would probably be ok to treat spinach as a DP or NP that is a complement to
ice-cream or to treat spinach ice-cream as a compound.

pg. 83: lowest T head is misaligned

Chapter 8
The title of this chapter should be “Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory”.
page 85, WBE3: ‘table’ ⟶ ‘house’

Page 91, Answer to WBE8 (a) the theta grid and sentence should have “loved” instead of
“desired”

Chapter 9
pg. 96, WBE6: “sentences” → “clauses”

pg. 103, WBE12 e): according to the scheme in the text, doaux should be doneg

Chapter 10
pg. 110: fn2, 3: “Merriman” → “Merrifield”

page 112: WBE3 answer (1) ɨntam ⟶ antam

page 112: WBE3 answer (3) antam ⟶ ɨntam

page 117

Chapter 11
pg 117 WBE1: boldface seems, wants, is eager, is certain.

pg. 124: “seems” should be a V, not an Adj

Chapter 12
pg. 137: sinn → sibh

pg. 140 WBE 5 (c), delete the is, V, V’, VP in the middle of the tree and the arrow
moving ‘is’ to T

pg. 140 WBE5 (d) delete the is, V, V’, VP in the middle of the tree and the arrow
moving ‘is’ to T

Chapter 14
page 154: tree in (d): replace bepass with waspass

page 155: tree in (f): replace bepass with waspass

Chapter 15
pg. 159, WBE8. Line 3: subject control ⟶ object control
pg 162: WBE5 (d) answer: a expletive ⟶ an expletive
pg. 163: WBE 7: the subscript on the PRO DP should be i, not m. The AgrO’ is missing
its bar.
pg. 164: The AgrO’ is missing it’s bar
pg. 166 in the higher clause Øpres should be Øpast
pg. 166 in the higher clause urge should be urged.
pg. 166: in lower clause the AgrO’ node is missing its bar; Fiona-DP should have
subscript m
pg. 167: in lower clause the AgrO’ node is missing its bar

Chapter 16

page 171, WBE4 last line. change the first ( to a “–” dash)