Quiz for:
Syntax Lecture: Verb Phrases and X-bar Schema

Question 1

What does the X-bar schema often struggle to account for adequately?

Question 2

What happens when a verb combines first with its object?

Question 3

What issue arises when the X-bar schema provides more positions than necessary?

Question 4

In the structure of verb phrases, what does the head (V) project to first?

Question 5

In the general schema for phrases, the X-bar schema applies to which categories of phrases?

Question 6

Which term refers to when the X-bar schema doesn't provide enough positions?

Question 7

Which type of verb has a subject but no object?

Question 8

Which phrase structure has the determiner as the head?

Question 9

What is the structural position that is the sister to the X bar?

Question 10

What are the two arguments that transitive verbs combine with?

Question 11

In the structure of verb phrases, what is the form after combining the V with its complement?

Question 12

What is the next constituent formed after a verb combines with its object?

Question 13

In the X-bar schema, which structural position can be optional?

Question 14

According to the X-bar schema, what is directly combined with the head (X) to form X bar (X')?

Question 15

Which structural position is sister to the head in the X-bar schema?