535 Assignment 14

Pfau, pp. 101-171

Due: Tuesday, March 9, 2004

(FYI: The Harley 1984 that Pfau cites isn’t me! (I was 14).)

1. What evidence does Pfau say that Garrett gives to argue that, within the ‘formulation’ or ‘translation’ portion of the production process, there are discrete sub-levels?

2. Garrett proposed two sub-levels. What does he call them? What happens at each of the two relevant sub-levels doing in the production process?

3. Does a lemma, in Levelt’s model, contain the semantic features which distinguish concepts like CAT and DOG?

4. Pfau gives an example of a speech error that appears to support a Bobaljik-style analysis of do-support, according to which do-support is post-syntactic. What is the example?

5. Because form-based substitutions happen after morphosyntactic agreement has been implemented, Pfau’s model predicts that we will never see with gender mismatches resulting from form-based substitutions. How many such examples does Pfau actually observe?