Semantics Assignment on 29th October 2015

Read the text and do the tasks.

1.   a. Rudi berjalan di atas jembatan.

      b. *Rudi berjalan jembatan.

2.   a. Rudi membawa tongkat dan topi.

      b. *Rudi membawa tongkat topi.

3.   a. Rudi mengambil air.

      b. *Rudi mengambil.

4.   a. Rudi mengirim ibunya seikat bunga.

      b. *Rudi mengirim ibunya.

5.   a. Silvi tersenyum kepada saya.

      b. *Silvi tersenyum saya.

Task One.

a.       Which sentences are legitimate (acceptable grammatically and semantically)?

b.      Look at number (b)s and identify what category makes the sentences in (b) illegitimate?

c.       What makes the occurance of the words in (1a) legitimate? Do the same thing to (2a), (3a), (4a), and (5a).

d.      Look at other NPs in sentences (1-5) and find out why the occurances of ‘Rudi’, ‘Silvi’, and ‘ibunya’ are legitimate?

e.      How many ‘NPs’ does the verb ‘berjalan’ require to occur?

f.        How many ‘NPs’ does the verb ‘membawa’ require to occur?

g.       How many ‘NPs’ does the verb ‘mengambil’ require to occur?

h.      How many ‘NPs’ does the verb ‘mengirim’ require to occur?

i.         How many ‘NPs’ does the verb ‘tersenyum’ require to occur?

j.        Does the verbs in (1-5) decide the numbers of NP to occur in a sentence?

k.       What if the number of NPs in the sentences are not the same as are required by the verbs?

l.         Analyze the occurance of NP ‘jembatan’ in (1b) and and then compare to (1a). What can you say about the legitimacy and illegitimacy of the occurances of the NPs. Do the same to sentences in (2-5)?

m.    Good luck and keep smile.