On Thursday, I’m planning on essentially “canceling” my office hours, in the sense that I’m planning to spend them in the classroom of my other class (Syntax), answering questions people might have there. If you were planning to come to my office hours on Thursday, let me know, and perhaps we can set up a …
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 …
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 …
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The Blackboard site for this course is now functional. I couldn’t see a way to make a direct link, but if you go to http://blackboard.bu.edu/ and sign in, I believe the course should show up. As a reminder, the only thing I intend to use the Blackboard site for is a place to keep grades …
I discovered that I have a faculty meeting today when my office hours are supposed to be, so I will need to hold my office hours from 3-4pm instead of the usual time. Since the time I chose for Wednesday office hours is going to be subject to this kind of pre-emption frequently, I’m going …
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First, sorry that I haven’t posted as much here as I’d intended to, the backlog is growing. The topic of this post is: what we did at 12:30 this afternoon. The reason for my posting this is just that not everything made it into the handouts, and also, the handouts were several. For the papers …
Welcome to the course blog for the Topics in Linguistics: Language Universals course. This is an evolving place, you should keep track of what happens here. Consult the schedule linked above (do not rely on the printed copy I handed out initially, things will almost certainly change over the course of the semester). You may …
This is the future home of the Topics in Linguistics: Universals of Language site. The information here is a bit sketchy, but you should be able to get an idea of what kinds of things we’ll cover and what the general structure of the course will be by clicking the “Course information” and “Schedule” links …
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