Assignment on Verb Movement and Do-support
                   Due on April 19, 2012


1. Consider the following sentence in French and its English counterparts:

a. Je mange souvent des     pommes.
   I eat    often   of.the  apples
   I often eat apples. 

b. I often eat apples.
c. *I eat often apples.

Draw trees for the French (a) and the English (b). Make sure to show how the V and the T get together 
- by V to T movement or by lowering of T to V. Treat French `des' as a D. Why is (c) ungrammatical 
in English?

2. Draw trees for the following sentences:

a. Mike might not have read this book.
b. Mike has not read this book.
c. Mike did not read this book.

Why (d) and (e) are  bad?
d. *Mike not read this book.
e. *Mike did not have read this book. 

3. Draw trees for the following cases of VP-ellipsis and VP-topicalization. 

a. [Mike said that he can read this book, and]
   read this book, he can.

b. [Mike said that he would read this book, and]
   read this book, he did. 

c. [Mike must visit the dentist.] Tina must, too. 
d. [Mike visited the dentist yesterday.] Tina did, too. 
(Assume that "too" is an AdvP right adjoined to the VP)