PSA: BUCLD volunteering
While I’m posting PSAs, here is the web site to visit if you are interested in volunteering to help out with the Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Archive of entries posted on September 2008
PSA: Keep an eye on voter registration deadlines
Here’s something that has nothing really to do with features or theta-roles. Maybe in some senses about checking. You may have heard that there’s a presidential election coming up here in the US relatively soon. For those of you who are US citizens, there is a hurdle that I just wanted to remind you of, …
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HW3: That’s not “called for.”
In part II of homework #3, just to clarify, the sentence you are trying to construct does contain more than just the words called and for. There are five lexical items (five words). Three of those words are pronouns (which means I perhaps should have included something like a [PRN] feature on them as well). …
HW3: Being scolded in Sri Lanka
In the sentences (4a) and (4b) in Part 1 of homework #3, you’re asked to consider the theta-roles of the participants in a scolding. As one of you has pointed out to me in an email, there is a sense in which when, say, John scolds Mary, John is doing something, but Mary is kind …
Groupy study
By the way, one thing that I keep meaning to say and keep not remembering to: By all means, absolutely, feel free to work on homework in groups. It often helps a lot. It may or may not go faster, but it does seem to help people get a deeper understanding than they might have …
HW1: The key is coming, and also: don’t panic
Homework 1, which I’ve given back to almost everyone now, doesn’t have a lot of explanatory comments on it. That’s because there’s a key, which you can consult. That key will be posted tonight. There is a password for downloading the key, which I will give out in class. However — once it’s posted, you …
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HW2: Books from Greece
A couple of quick notes on homework #2. First off: This is potentially a rather tricky one to do if you aren’t a native speaker of English. However, you are in principle not being graded on how native-like your English judgments are. The point of this homework is really to know how to apply the …
Car talk puzzler links
Just so you don’t have to go try to dig them up yourself, the links for the Car Talk puzzler I included “for fun” on the last homework are: The puzzler itself (“Tire mounting… with but a few letters“), and the answer. Also, you’ll notice that “guarantee” is misspelled there, by the way. That is …
Probable final exam time
I’m not sure how long this date has been known, but according to the final exam schedule for standard block times, the LX522 final will be on Thursday Dec. 18, from 9am to 11am, in the usual room. It is not impossible that this could change, but it probably won’t.
HW1: This particular box
Having gotten a couple of additional questions about the light box, let me just say a couple more things. What you’re trying to do is describe this light box. Not any light box one might be able to build with similar components. This one behaves in a special way. It has a four way switch, …