Written Test 1 Literature & Language Research Paper (Other (Not Listed) Sample)

Written Test 1
1 Draw 2 tree diagrams representing the 2 meanings of the following sentence.
The ugly journalist interviewed the handsome actor in a tuxedo.

Meaning 1: The ugly journalist was in a tuxedo as he was interviewing the handsome actor.

Tree 1: The ugly journalist was in a tuxedo as he was interviewing the handsome actor.
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The ugly journalist was in a tuxedo as he was interviewing the handsome actor.

Meaning 2: The handsome actor was in a tuxedo as he was being interviewed by the ugly journalist.

Tree 2:
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The handsome actor was in a tuxedo as he was being interviewed by the ugly journalist.

2 In the following passage, indicate in the blank following each underlined suffix whether it is inflectional (I) or derivational (D).
In 2005, a linguist-anthropologist, Daniel Everett, published [I] a startling report on Piraha, a language spoken [I] by a few hundred mostly [D] monolingual tribespeople in the rainforest of northwestern Brazil. Piraha, it was claimed [I], lacks complex syntactic structure in general, including [I ] complement clauses, and coordination [D] – unlike any other known language, it supposedly permits [I] only short, simple sentences. (It is also said to lack color terms, numerals, and quantity-denoting expressions such as every and some.) Although the report has received quite widespread attention in the media, its accuracy [ D ] is being [ I ] hotly debated within linguistics. A great deal of additional [ D] research and scrutiny will be required before a consensus is reached on the status of this fascinating language.