Tutorial02_Ling300_pronouns (1)

Ling300.002, 2020w2 (Déchaine, Underhill, and Guntly) Tutorial 02 Playing with pronouns: preparing for Binding Theory Instructions : This exercise explores the syntax of pronouns, focusing on English pronouns. The goal is for you to reflect on the internal and external syntax of pronouns, in preparation for Unit 2, which looks at Binding Theory. In your Study Group, work through the following sets of questions, which are organized into 3 steps. . (During the last part of the tutorial, you’ll come together with the tutorial as a whole for discussion.) In your Study Group, assign someone to be the timekeeper , someone to be the spokesperson (for the debrief), and someone to be the recorder (to take a screen shot of the trees that you draw). After the tutorial, submit your trees to Canvas.  Step 1: collection of the data (5 min.) Step 2 : description of the data (10 min.) Step 3: phrase structure analysis (15 min.) Step 1: Collection of the data (5 min.). English has several sets of personal pronouns, which differ in form according to the syntactic position they occur in, namely subject, object, and possessive. In addition, English has a set of reflexive pronouns. For each sentence in Table 1, fill in the blank; the first row is done by way of example. a. SUBJECT PRONOUN b. OBJECT PRONOUN c. POSSESSIVE PRONOUN d. REFLEXIVE 1 st person singular ___ I ___ saw Lucy Lucy saw ___ me ___ Lucy loves ___ my ___ dog. ___ I ___ admire __ myself __ 2 nd person singular _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 3rd person singular, feminine _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 3rd person singular, masculine _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 3rd person singular, neuter _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 1 st person plural _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 2 nd person plural _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ 3rd person plural _______ saw Lucy Lucy saw ________ Lucy loves ________ dog _______ admire ________ Table 1: English personal pronouns Step 2: Description of the data (10 min.) Based on the data that you collective in Table 1, consider the following three questions: Q1: Relative to the contrast between 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd person, which person contrasts gender? Q2: Relative to the contrast between 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd person, which lacks a contrast in number? Q3: Relative to possessive pronouns and reflexives, how are they similar, and how do they differ? Step 3: Phrase structure analysis (15 min.) Give the bare phrase structure representations of the following sentences. (Assume that pronouns are DPs.) Indicate the decisions that you made about the internal structure of the pronouns. (We’ll come back to these examples in class on Tuesday.) (1) She knows me . (2) She knows my dog .