Sag, Wasow, and Bender (2003): Syntactic Theory: A formal introduction, Second Edition

Errata as of Autumn 2009

Many of these have been corrected in the second and later printings. Errata in red are contentful and important.

• Preface
  • p. xv, ln. -21 Capital V in Frank Van Eynde
  • p. xv, ln. 3: replace 'develped' with 'developed'
• Chapter 1
  • p. 2, ln. -12: 'Will' should not be capitalized
• Chapter 2
  • p. 29, 1st line in Sec 2.4: replace 'sections' with 'section'
  • p. 42, ln. 7: replace 'the the' with 'the'
• Chapter 3
  • p. 50, ln. -19: 'interesect' -> 'intersect'
  • p. 52, ln. -7: 'deparments' -> 'departments'
  • p. 53, ln. 6: replace 'hierararchy' with 'hierarchy'
  • p. 56, fn. 7: 'devlop' -> 'develop'
  • p. 62, ln. 2: add footnote: In order to simplify our presentation, we postpone all discussion of the feature AUX until Chapter 13.
  • p. 78, above (63): insert 'the' between 'that' and 'lexical entry'.
  • p. 79 (64b): To be fully resolved, this feature structure should also add a value for AUX ([AUX -]). However, we are postponig all discussion of AUX until Chapter 13.
  • p. 83, ln. 2: 'digrams' -> 'diagrams'
  • p. 89, Problem 3, part C: Change end to: 'any identities that the grammar (including your modified HSR2 and the Head Feature Principle) requires.'
  • p. 91 problem 5: There's a faulty presupposition in part D of this question: on Smith's analysis of number names, the immediate head of the phrase two hundred five is hundred five, not two hundred.
  • p. 546, answer to exercise 3: In fact, phrases licensed by the rule in (47) [page 69] are incompatible with the head daughter positions of the rules in (37) [page 65] even without the specification [COMPS itr] because the former is of type phrase and the latter of type word.
• Chapter 4
  • p. 102, ln. -7 'that mother' -> 'that the mother'
  • p. 106, ln. -2 'now its final form' -> 'now in its final form'
  • p. 107 (32) The constraint on the SPR value should be HEAD.AGR [1], not just AGR [1]. While we will sometimes use such "abbreviated" pathnames, it doesn't make sense to do so in the initial presentation of a constraint such as this one.
  • p. 108 (33) Likewise, in this example, the constraint on the SPR value should be HEAD.AGR [1], not just AGR [1].
  • p. 123, Problem 1, Part B: 'the data in (10d-h)' -> 'the data in (10e-h)'.
• Chapter 5
  • p. 147, below (33): The value of MOD is not an expression, but rather a list of zero or more expressions (in fact, zero or one expressions).
  • p. 147, ln. 11 Extraneous space between for and adverbs.
  • p. 151, ln -11 (46a.b) should be (46a,b).
  • p. 161, ln. 5: replace '5.3' with '5.8'
• Chapter 6
  • p. 191, ln. -12: extraneous space before footnote mark 11.
  • p. 194, ln. 3: replace the `is-an-element-of' symbol (), with `=`.
• Chapter 7
  • p. 225, first line of part D. "(vii) and (viii) should" be "(ix) and (x)"
• Chapter 8
  • p. 242, under (39) missing "which" after "structures"
  • p.261, (78) should have only one feature ARG-ST, at the outermost level (not inside SYN) with the value < DP[COUNT +]_i (, PP[of]_j) >.
• Chapter 9
  • p. 290, ln. 5: replace the `is-an-element-of' symbol (), with `=`.
  • p. 301, ln. 22: interacts -> interact
  • p. 308, first paragraph: The Argument Realization Principle does not belong under the heading of "Phrasal Licensing", and we did not mention earlier that it might vary across languages.
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
  • p. 334 o with two accents should be ö in (6b) piros-fehér-zöld.
  • p. 345 Extraneous dot after "Semantic Inheritance Principle".
  • p. 357 Problem 11.3, Part B: "be sure to the INDEX" -> "be sure to show the INDEX"
• Chapter 15
  • p. 463, fn 11: missing {\it 1sing} and {\it 3sing} before two different occurrences of `and'
  • p. 463, ln -12: `destructively modifies' should be `destructively modify'
• Appendices
  • p. 517 Lex entry for 'not' might have wrong RESTR value.
  • p. 520, ln. 5: replace the `is-an-element-of' symbol (), with `=`.
  • p. 531, ln. 8: replace 'a analyses' with either 'analyses' or 'an analysis'
  • p. 534, end of 2nd to last para: extraneous ,
  • p. 561, ln 18: replace 'strcutures' with 'structures'. (Also in this entry for feature structure, we should have explained the notion of typing of feature structures.)