We talked a little bit about the final project on Tuesday. The idea I had originally had was to assign a couple of already stated universals that you could explore using the online database tools, or maybe even try to discover new correlations. My own experimentation with this wound up making it clear to me …
Here’s a quick list of the resources we looked at in class. First was the World Atlas of Language Structures Online (WALS), which we’d also looked at a bit before. This time our look included playing a bit with the Mac application (there are also version for Windows) that can be found here. We also …
I have mentioned a couple of times next semester’s course on “current issues in syntax,” and by now there is a preliminary course blog in place, which has some information about the format, the schedule, and some ideas about what papers we might be looking at. The web address is: http://ling.bu.edu/blogs/lx500b1s11/ Although the pre-registration for …
Continue reading ‘Next semester’s LX500 (“Topics in syntax”) course’ »
We watched the first bit of a video from a Google event in which Noam Chomsky answered some questions, the link to the video is here: YouTube: Authors@Google: Noam Chomsky After the first couple of introductory minutes, the response to the question about changes in the conception of UG follows, which is what we watched. …
Continue reading ‘Noam Chomsky answering questions at a Google event’ »