I was just reminded of the fact that, in principle, you have now seen DPs, and so there is a question about what to do with the homework that is due Thursday. My intention was that you would use NPs on homework 6. In general, the homework is intended to relate to the things that …
I’ve finally gotten through working out the mid-semester grade estimates, and I’ve added them to the Blackboard site for the course. You should see a column called “MidSem”, which contains a number on a 4-point scale. The idea is that anything above 3.67 is an A, above 3.33 is an A-, above 3.00 is a …
Ok, sorry to have been slow making this available, but this is how I would line up the points on the midterm to letter grades. Note too that I pushed it up a little bit in order to exclude (2e). 47–50 = A, 43–46 = A−,39–42 = B+, 35–38 = B, 31–34 = B−,27–30 = …
It was just brought to my attention that there is a small error on the key for homework #4. It’s on the very last sentence of the homework: John does bind him and so it should have been underlined. For completeness, I’ve replaced the key online, although this is the only change. Addendum: It appears …
In response to another question over email, about the questions on the practice midterms that ask about how may [uP*] features are in the trees. The answers to these basically hinge on whether the PP in the tree is getting a theta role or not. If a PP in the tree is getting a theta …
In response to a question I got over email, let me just give a couple of examples of evaluating Binding Theory satisfaction and violations. For Binding Theory, the thing to keep in mind is that binding only goes one direction, from higher in the tree to lower in the tree. For the most part, things …
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Monday is a holiday, and then Tuesday is a “Monday.” I don’t generally have office hours on Mondays and I won’t be having office hours on Tuesday as a result (also, I’ll be out of town). Feel free to email me questions you have about the midterm, though, in the meantime. And I’ll try to …
Paper and pencil work fine, but how can you draw your trees electronically? When I’m using Word, I usually do this with the help of Arboreal. This is a $20 font that you can use to draw the tree branches. If you have the font, I have an example document that demonstrates the style I …
Just something like a clarification: You can only Adjoin to something that doesn’t have any Merges left it needs to do. Effectively, this means that you can only Adjoin to XPs. You don’t have to necessarily wait until the very end of the derivation to Adjoin — you just have to do all of the …
Another quick note based on a question I got. Although it is possible to say “John read” (and one can debate whether this implicitly means “John read something” or not), for the purposes of the problem on homework 4, assume that “read” is a regular transitive verb. With an Agent and a Theme. Like “see” …