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Ocelot Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

syntactic relations and underlying forms conundrum

0 I have been agonizing over the following assignment:02br
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00"Draw tree diagrams of the underlying structure of and explain the difference in the relationship between Harry and the verb See in:02br
001.Josh advised Harry to see the doctor.02br
002.Josh promised Harry to see the doctor."02br
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00I realize that Harry is the one whose visiting a doctor is the topic of sentence 1, whereas in 2 it's Josh. Still, I can't seem to break the sentences into their underlying forms in any fruitful way. 2: "Josh promised Harry." and "Josh promised to see the doctor" could conceivably be the underlying forms, but how does that help? For sentence 1, I am unable to think of any two underlying clauses at all. Or what is it they mean by this 'underlying structure' that one is supposed to expound? I am stumped.0-
  

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02br 02br 00By undelying structure they might have meant semantics opposed to syntax... 0-

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0 In #1 "see" relates to "Harry".02br
00In #2 it doesn't because it's Josh who is going to see the doctor.02br
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00That all...02br
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00By undelying structure they might have meant semantics opposed to syntax... 0-
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0 The point is to see and to demonstrate that the verb 01i00advise02i00 works differently from the verb 01i00promise02i00 when it comes to assigning a subject to the following infinitive.02br
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00 The underlying clauses are therefore02br
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01i00Josh advise Harry Harry see doctor02br
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