I have also posted some midterm notes that might be helpful. A word about these: Because I wanted to get this posted as soon as I could, I kind of cobbled these together from other handouts I’ve made in the past. As a result, these notes go into rather more depth on certain things (logic, …
At long last, you can now retrieve the practice midterm. Once you’ve sat down to run through it (best to do this in a realistic amount of time, to see how it goes), you can check your answers against the key. Bring questions you have to class on Tuesday (or email them to me). The …
The practice midterm is still not ready, but the key to that partial/fragment midterm I gave out is posted. The semantic type of quickly wasn’t really a very appropriate thing to ask about, because when we discussed adverbs, we were talking about it in a different way, so there are a couple of possibilities.
By the way, lest you think that the midterm is going to be all and only about semantic types, I did just want to reassure you that I plan to make it a bit more representative than that. The reason the fragment looks the way it does is mainly that the questions that are on …
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The practice midterm, and answers to the little fragment I provided, are still coming. I was hoping to have it by this morning, but my schedule has been completely packed since I left class on Thursday, so I’m only just now able to really start in on it. Stay tuned, sorry for the delay.
Sorry I forgot to bring this to class, but I have now posted the key for Homework #4, which I have also given back to just about everyone. I’ll bring copies of this key on Tuesday too. Coming up later tonight will be a bit more reasonable attempt at a midterm mockup, stay tuned. I …
If you were considering taking Sociolinguistics next semester (CAS AN 521), some good news on the schedule: The time has been changed to M4-7 — so it is no longer going to be on Tuesday, and will no longer conflict with, for example, Syntax II (CAS LX 523). Take a note of this if you …
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I thought I was having a particularly spam-free semester. If you’ve tried to post a comment, you might have noticed it just plain didn’t work. Now it does. Sorry about that!
This has nothing to do with semantics, really, but in case you missed this information as you were applying functions to arguments: if you are a US citizen and plan to vote in November but are not yet registered to do so, the deadline is imminent for your registration to be processed in time. In …
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We talked a bit about tall and the fact that it really seems to mean something like “tall as compared to other things of the same sort.” And it came up that even something like red is probably relative too (cf. red hair vs. red paint). But for the purposes of the homework, you can …
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