On homework #3, this is what I mentioned in the class, but here’s what I had in mind.

This is again kind of a “reading assignment” homework. Read the first part of the Vallduví article that I gave out (what I had in mind is reading up to the end of section 3, p. 133, though you can read sec. 4 about English, or, heck, the rest of the article if you want).

The part to write up is a comparison of the discussion of (15) in Vallduví’s article (p. 129) and the facts about rightward movement discussed on section 2.4 of Thursday’s handout (53-56) in Basque. To do this, you might also look again at section 2.3 of Thursday’s homework about movement to the left in Basque, too. The idea is basically to see what Vallduví was doing in (15) and discuss what this might lead us to expect (or at least check) for Basque examples like those in section 2.4 of the handout.

It doesn’t need to be a long writeup, something like a page.

I don’t really know how a seemingly clear day morphed into one crammed with back-to-back meetings, but probably needless to say, you can now stop checking for the homework I said I was going to post. I’ll finish it and hand it out in class tomorrow.

Here, a bit late, are the specs for the homework relating to the reading that we’re doing for the next class (Krahmer and Swarts, 2008). This pretty much matches what I said in class about it.

Write up a short summary of the article, approximately a single-spaced page long, plus or minus a quarter of a page. Mention what they were testing for in the studies, how they tested for these things, and what the conclusions were. It’s not meant to be difficult, if you read the paper. The real substance of this homework is to read the paper.

Because we’re discussing the paper on Tuesday, I would like to get these summaries from you on Tuesday, even though that is less than a week to do it.

Let me know if you have any questions, and see you on Tuesday.