LINGVISTIKA JANUAR ROK 2007-01-13

Recenice
1. Somebody is singing in the room.
2. They want to leave the room.
3. You will each receive a present.
4. The students do seem to hate generative syntax.
5. There were several soldiers killed.
6. Our students are believed to love their professors.
7. He was killed.
8. She broke the mirror accidentally into pieces.
9. Everybody blamed him for the accident.
10. He passed her the salt
11. There came a strange creature from the bushes.
Sve reenice su iz poglavlja 7, 8, 9.

FONETIKA
1. Give phonetic rule for why BAD BOY is pronounced BAB BOY.
2. What are the stressed syllables in phonetic transcription of PHOTOGRAPHIC?
3. Give example of English words in which 2 sounds are in complementary
distribution. Write them & indicate which sounds are in complementary
distribution.
4. Write 3 voiceless plosive phonemes & 6 voiceless plosive phones
5. Write allophones of voiceless plosive bilabial consonant
6. Give syllable structure of word CENTRAL
7. Write UR of PHOTOGRAPHY and apply the appropriate rule to derive SR
8. What is the common feature for fricatives, approximants and vowels?
9. Write formal phonological rule for aspirated and unaspirated /p,t,k/
10. Consider sentence which may prove the claim that natural languages are
infinite.
11. Mark /7p,t,k/ and /b,d,g/
MORFOLOGIJA
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Write morphological and syntactical criteria that prove BOOK is a noun.

Give all forms of BE
Give an example of a bound morpheme
INDECIPHERABILITY write tree diagram
Derive a noun from a noun
Give lexical entry for lexeme KNIFE
Give example of an ambiguous compound & represent different meaning by
means of tree diagram
8. Give example of clitics
9. Give example of phonologically conditioned allomorph
10. Give example of cumulation

11. Give example of synthetic compounding in English

12. Give example of Ablaut in English
13. Give example of consonant mutation
14. Give sentence which entails the sentence THE THING IN CAGE IS AN
ANIMAL
15. Taxonimy of words defined by semantic relation of HYPONYMY starting with
CREATURE. Indicate which terms are HYPONYMS and which
SUPERORDINATES
16. Give example OF MERONYMY
17. Give example of ANTONYMY
18. Give example of COMPLEMENTARTY
19. Give example of formal representation of the meaning of lexical items RAM,
EWE, LAMB
20. Give entailment including jointly sufficient conditions for an octagon
21. Give example of borrowings & indicate origin
22. Give example of inter-dialect borrowings and indicate the direction of them
23. Give example of lexical semantic change
24. Give example of single word form of a single lexeme which corresponds to 2
grammatical words. Specify these words

SINTAXA
1. What are grammatical categories and what are grammatical functions of words
& what are JOHN and CIGARS in relation to SMOKES in JOHN SMOKES
CIGARS.
2. Represent the structure of phrase REDUCE TAXES. What is REDUCE to
Taxes in VP
3. What is head features, specifier features and complement features of the word
HAS in HE HAS SEEN THEM
4. Is the requirement that reflexive should have a local antecedent satisfied &
how in JOHN WOULD LIKE (TO PROVE HIMSELF)
5. What is complement of auxiliary in HE MAY
6. What is the head of the embedded in interrogative HE WANTED TO KNOW IF
THE PRESIDENT WAS LYING
7. Which syntactical operation is used in question WAS THE PRESIDENT
LYING?
8. Which type of movement is illustrated in YOU MUST REALIZE (THAT THIS
KIND OF BEHAVIOUR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED)
9. What kind of phenomenon was illustrated in I DIDNT SAY NOTHING and
NISTA NISAM REKAO
10. State truth conditions of sentence JOHN SNORES
11. Give logical form of sentence WHICH SHEEP SNORES?
12. Give piece of evidence that PRO id positioned in spec-VP, not in spec-IP
13. Give example to support the conclusion that V only indirectly theta-mark their
external a.
14. What is the subject of the complement clause HE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND
HER and SHE WILL TRY TO HELP HIM

15. What is the case of THE BALL how is this case assigned (cheked) and which
theta-role is assigned to SHE & how in WE ROLLED THE BALL DOWN THE
HILL.

OSTALA PITANJA
FONETIKA
1. Stressed syllables of a word PHOTOGRAPHIC
2. BAD BOY is pronounced BAB BOY in colloquial speech - give phonological
rule and name the process
3. Give phonetic and phonemic transcription of the word PIT
4. Give IPA symbols for consonants which do not occur word initially, write the
words in which they occur and transcribe
5. 3 voiceless plosive phonemes and 6 voiceless plosive phones
6. All allophones of the voiceless plosive bilabial consonant
7. Syllable structure of the word CENTRAL
8. Give UR for word PHOTOGRAPHY and derive SR
9. Mark P,T,K and B,D,G to indicate the distinction between them
10. Common feature for fricatives, approximants and vowels.
11. Formulate a formal phonological rule for aspired and unaspired P,T,K
12. Give example of English words in which 2 sounds are in complementary
distributing, write these words in phonetic transcription and indicate which
sounds are in complementary distribution.
13. Write from 1 to 4 the likehood of T/D deletion: ground attack, seemed odd,
best friend, seemed funny
14. Construct sentence which may prove the claim that natural languages are
infinite
15. Give an example of garden-path sentence
16. What is common feature for nasals and plosives
MORFOLOGIJA
1. Apply morphological and syntactic criteria to prove that BOOK is a noun
2. All inflectional forms of BE
3. Example of bound morpheme
4. Free morpheme
5. Derive noun from a noun
6. verb from a noun
7. Adjective from a noun
8. Noun from a verb
9. Verb from a verb
10. Adjective form a verb
11. Noun from adjective
12. Verb from adjective
13. Adjective from adjective

14. Represent the structure of the word INDECIPHERABLITY by means of a tree

diagram
15. Lexical entry for the lexeme KNIFE
16. Lexeme BRING
17. Lexeme WALK
18. Example of clitics
19. Phonologically conditioned allomorph
20. Lexically conditioned allomorph
21. Cumulation
22. Synthetic compounding in English
23. Ablaut in English
24. Consonant mutation in English
25. Meronymy
26. Antonimy
27. Complementarity
28. Elision
29. Assimilation
30. Alternation
31. Suppletion
32. Umlaut
33. Hyponymy
34. Super ordinate
35. Taxonimy of CREATURE
36. Lexical gap
37. Give sentence which entails sentence THE THING IN A CAGE IS AN ANIMAL
38. Give an example of a single word of a single lexeme which corresponds to 2
grammatical words. Specify these words
39. Give an example of ambiguous compound and represent different meaning
my means of a tree diagram
40. Give formal representation of lexical items: ram, ewe, lamb
41. Give formal representation of lexical items: bull, calf, cow
42. Give formal representation of lexical items: stallion, mare, soal
43. Example of borrowings and indicate origin.
44. Inter-dialect borrowings and direction of borrowings
45. Examples of lexical semantic change
46. Give the entailment including jointly sufficient conditions for an octagon.
SINTAXA
1. Grammatical categories and functions in a sentence JOHN SOMKES
CIGRAS. Relations of words JOHN and cigars to SMOKES.
2. Difference of complement clause: WE EXPECT (JOHN WILL WIN THE
RACE) and WE EXPECT (JOHN TO WIN THE RACE)
3. Forms and functions of sentences: HE FAILED THE EXAM.; DID HE HELP
YOU? ; YOU BE QUITE! ; WHAT A FOOL I WAS!
4. Labeled bracketing for a word INDECEIPHERABILITY
5. Head specifier and complement features of the word HAS in: HE HAS SEEN
THEM
6. What is the complement of the auxiliary in HE MAY
7. Which syntactic operation is used to form a question: WAS THE PRESIDENT
LYING?

8. What kind of phenomenon is illustrated with AAVE sentence and its Bosnian
counterpart: I DIDNT SAY NOTHING and NISTA NISAM REKAO
9. State the truth conditions of sentence JOHN SNORES
10. Give logical form of sentence WHICH SHEEP SNORES
11. Give piece of evidence that PRO id positioned in spec-VP, not in spec-IP
12. head of complement clause REDUCE TAXES
13. What is the subject of the complement clause HE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND
HER and SHE WILL TRY TO HELP HIM
14. What is the case of THE BALL how is this case assigned (checked) and which
theta-role is assigned to SHE & how in WE ROLLED THE BALL DOWN THE
HILL.
15. Difference in sentences:
HE DELIBARATELY ROLLED THE BALL GENTLY DOWN THE HILL. and
HE GENTLY ROLLED THE BALL DELIBARATELY DOWN THE HILL.