1. Identify the subject arguments in the following:
| a. | John is tall. |
| b. | The book arrived yesterday. |
| c. | She became despondent. |
2. Give four grammatical features of each of the three different kinds of subject arguments identified in 1.
3. Identify as many of the grammatical features as you can on the nominals in the follow ing sentences:
| a. | The Nineteenth Century was full of new inventions. |
| b. | Thomas Jefferson loved pound cake. |
| c. | In China the people cultivate rice and good manners. |
| d. | They both gave up without an argument. |
| e. | While in Long Beach we visited the Queen Mary. |
Which of the grammatical features differ from the interpreted semasiological functors?
4. The figure of speech illustrated in 3c is zeugma. Zeugma occurs when a word has two interpretations normally disambiguated by some feature on some word that it governs. Is it possible to give a grammatical account of this figure?
5. Categorize the following collectives:
| a. | salmon | e. | cannon | i. | timber |
| b. | cabbage | f. | majority | j. | game |
| c. | straw | g. | lead | k. | chicken |
| d. | sheep | h. | shot | l. | orchestra |