Universidad Nacional de La Plata ∞ Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación ∞ Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA II 2020 RECUPERATORIO

EVALUACIÓN PARCIAL 2

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1) You are going to read an extract from Rebecca. Find the following structures in the text and complete the
chart as it is shown in the example. Please be clear when transcribing the structures. Do not provide
examples from the bracketed sentence in this exercise. DO NOT USE THE SAME EXAMPLE TWICE.

 Inherent unaccusative (0)

 Semi-auxiliary
 Raising
 Ergative

‘We would not suggest that you were to blame. Mrs Rebecca de Winter seems to have been careless for a moment,
the boat sank, and she lost her life’

‘Excuse me, sir, but there’s more to it than that. I’d like to make a further statement. [After the accident last year,
some people said Mrs de winter was allowed to use a damaged boat by me.] It was unfair, but the boat had sunk
and there was nothing I could say to defend myself. Well, I went to examine it yesterday to satisfy myself that the
work I had done was perfectly good. And it was.

Tabb paused. ‘I started to wonder: Who made the holes in the boat?’

I did not look at him but I looked at the floor. It was much too hot. Why didn’t they open a window? We should all be
suffocated if we sat (0) here with the air like this.

Your example Type of verbal Merger site Features

from the text construction of the argument of probe and goal – A-
involved Movement

(0) …we sat here (0). Inherent “we” merges as Probe: T head: [PAST], [u-3
Unaccusative internal argument sg], [EPP]
Predicate “sit” of the verb “sit”
Goal: “we”: [3p sg], [u-T]

“we” merges as the internal

argument (theme) of “sit”
and the moves in a cyclic
fashion to spec-TP to satisfy
the [EPP] feature carried by
the T-head.

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2) Classify the bold-printed instances of BE and HAVE. An example from the excerpt has been provided for you.

Instance of BE / HAVE Classification / Description

(0) Mrs Rebecca de Winter seems to have been Adjectival • Attributive • Individual Level • Central
careless for a moment coincidence relation

(1) We would not suggest that you were to blame

(2) …there’s more to it than that.

(3) It was unfair…

(4) …there was nothing I could say to defend

myself.

(5) And it was.

(6) We should all be suffocated…

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3) Analyze the instance of IT in italics and underlined. Decide if the pronoun is an expletive, referential or quasi-
argument and explain its occurrence. Be as thorough as possible (include syntactic distribution, type of construction
involved, feature valuation and any other relevant details).
YOUR ANSWER HERE:

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4) Recast the following sentences using the prompts.

A) I did not look at him but I looked at the floor. (Turn into a cleft-sentence).

B) Some people said Mrs de winter was allowed to use a damaged boat by me. (Apply Long-distance
passivization).

C) Mrs Rebecca de Winter seems to have been careless for a moment. (Use an expletive).

5) Represent the syntactic structure of the following sentence by means of an X-bar tree diagram. Either use
Syntax Tree Editor, export your tree diagram in .png format and paste it to the next blank page; or upload
the .png image as a separate file together with the Word file.

After the accident last year, some people said Mrs de winter was allowed to use a damaged boat by me.

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