B. Find as many raising adjectives and subject control adjectives as
you can. As in (A), briefly summarize the evidence for why you classify
the adjectives as you do.
How do we know that seem doesn't bear an oblique case
feature?
B. Does English have ECM and/or object control adjectives? Explain.
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
A. Find five ECM verbs and five object control verbs other than those
discussed in Chapter 7. As in Exercise 1, give the linguistic evidence
for why you classify the verbs the way you do.
Exercise 4
A. What linguistic principles are violated by the structures in (1)?
(More than one principle may be violated.)
| (1) | a. | * | There attempted [CP PRO to be a problem ] . |
| b. | * | Therei attempted [IP ti to be a problem ] . | |
| c. | * | Theyi seem [CP that ti have a problem ] . | |
| d. | * | I was expectant [IP there to be a problem ] . | |
| e. | * | I persuaded [IP there to be a problem ] . | |
| f. | * | I persuaded [CP there to be a problem ] . |