I just got an announcement for McCCLU 2009, the McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates. It’s a undergraduate conference, held in March. If you’re an undergraduate and have any research that you’ve done in Linguistics, definitely consider submitting it to the conference (the abstracts are not due until February) so anything you’re putting together this …
Rather close to the due moment, but just a note: I’ve gotten a few questions about what I intended on HW7, 3) of part 2, when I said “Same rules as above.” What I don’t mean is that you should draw two trees. Just draw one tree. There’s no relevant ambiguity in (f). The rules …
Finally, I had a chance to post some examples like those we worked out near the end of class. You can follow this link to get them: His book’s cover melted.
Ok, ok. I’ve been getting quite a lot of questions about homework 7, and I think I need to spend a bit more time talking about these things before I call time on this homework. So: homework #7 is not due tomorrow. Due to the holiday next Tuesday, this means I’m giving one more week …
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Thinking about homework 6 some more, a couple of things: First, concerning the features of elect, there was supposed to be a [uN*] feature there. I have posted an updated key to reflect this (but you should mark your paper copy). I will record a score 1 point higher for everyone across the board, because …
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 …