My new office hours will be: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5pm Wednesdays 12-1pm (I have moved the Friday office hours to Wednesday.) As before, if you want to set up a meeting with me outside of those times, just let me know and it can probably be arranged.
Harlan Lane (Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University) will be speaking on Wednesday, September 27th at 5 PM http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/lane.html “Deaf Ethnicity and the Failure of Medical Ethics” Place: Stone Science Center (675 Comm. Ave.) B50 ASL/English interpreters will be present. Abstract: This address is concerned with the language minority in North America called the …
As the semester gets underway, I’m discovering that I may not have picked the best times for my office hours, particularly on Friday. I will probably be switching them to Wednesday, which is also the day before homeworks will generally be due. I think that’s going to end up being a better time both for …
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In case it wasn’t super-clear, here’s your task for Thursday explicitly: read the first chapter of the Portner textbook, and it would be good to have read it before class just so you can have whatever questions you might have ready to ask.
I have traditionally given out paper questionnaires on the first day of class, but this year I will try it this way. Your first homework assignment is to email me the answers to the following questions, especially if you haven’t been in a class of mine before. You can just copy and paste it from …
This is the first trivial post on the blog for CAS LX 502 (Semantics) for Fall 2006. I will be posting announcements, corrections, various things here over the course of the semester. Although it is not a full-fledged “forum”, it is possible to post comments, which I encourage you to do.1 1At least unless you’re …