1 Basque headedness (7 points)
Basque is a language isolate (a language unrelated to any other known languages) spoken
natively in the Basque Country, located in northeastern Spain and southwestern France.
Then,
(1) Jon
Jon
-ek
-erg
eskola
school
-ra
-to
joan
go
ohi
usually
da
pres
“Jon usually goes to school.”
(2) Jon
Jon
-ek
-erg
liburu
book
-a
-abs
irakurri
read
du
has
“Jon has read the book.”

1. Is Basque a head-initial or a head-final language?
2. Draw a tree structure for Basque sentence (1). Treat erg and abs as determiners.

2 Reasoning about ungrammaticality (15 points)
Part A: Briefly explain why each of the following English sentences is ungrammatical. Use
technical concepts from the course in your answer. I’ve given a grammatical sentence that
expresses a similar/related meaning for comparison.
(3) *Today, we chased.
(Compare: Today, we chased pigeons.)
(4) *What did we eat dinner and then we watch?
(Compare: We ate dinner and then we watched a movie.)
(5) *It appeared final exams to be canceled.
(Compare: It appeared final exams would be canceled.)
(6) *What be we will eating?
(Compare: What will we be eating?)
(7) *I hit if you knew the answer.
(Compare: I wondered if you knew the answer.)
(8) *[The US president]i saw Joei in the mirror.
(Compare: The US president saw himself in the mirror.)