Very quick note on homework #3, part 1: In case this wasn’t clear, you are being asked to provide the theta roles and the arguments for each of the sentences, including both the (a) sentences and the (b) sentences. Doing this will also make it much clearer what I’m asking in part 2. Also, on …
I believe that I have now emailed back all of the homeworks #2 that I had in electronic form. If you didn’t get the homework either in person in class or emailed back to you, and you think that you should have, then let me know.
I’ve got the Blackboard site running now, there should be a link to it on the right side of your screen. I have put in the scores I have recorded for homework 1, and I will continue to keep the scores there. That’s about all that’s going on at the Blackboard site at the moment. …
For those of you who emailed me homework #1, the graded ones should now have been mailed back to you. If you got it to me late, I might still have it, but otherwise I think everybody should have them back now. I will try to be sure they get out in a more timely …
On homework #2, you are asked to draw a couple of trees. Draw them as per the instructions: no node labels, and only nodes that you have evidence for (and triangles over strings of words with no brackets). Don’t use anything like VP, V’, etc. This isn’t a test to see if you remember what …
For those who will soon be getting their electronically submitted homework back, or for those who picked up their written homework either in LX500 or in my office, the score on the homework is out of 35. I will be putting up a key shortly, so you can see a little bit more explanation of …
When you are considering (f) (postcards from Greece) and (h) (a book of postcards) in part 1, you ultimately want to conclude that these are constituents. And, furthermore, (f) should appear in the list for one of the meanings, and (h) should appear in the list for the other of the meanings, in part 2. …
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Talking to a couple of you earlier today, it came to my attention that there’s something funny about (i) in part 1 when you’re doing the constituency tests. This part is testing the constituency of received a book of postcards from Greece. What’s funny about it is the way the tense works. Received is in …
In an earlier draft of this problem, the sentence that the whole first chunk of the homework revolves around was about a book of cars, but I changed my mind at some point, thinking book of postcards sounded much better. However, “part 5” still refers to cars at the end. The parenthetical part there should …
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I’m not sure if I mentioned this in class or not, but there are a couple of conventional symbols used to indicate the grammatical status of example sentences. I wanted to find this out there somewhere on the web, but my searches didn’t reveal much. The best I found was a writeup about “asterisk” on …