We’re going to have plenty of opportunities to draw trees during the rest of the semester. If you wish to produce your trees electronically, you have a couple of options. Here is the easiest I think: Go to http://ironcreek.net/phpsyntaxtree/ and enter the specification of your tree in labeled bracket notation. They have an example to …
On the topic of constituency tests, there are a few standard tests out there, and in this age of the ubiquitous internet, I’m sure some of you will head out into the world to see what other people have said about them. This may be the first point, certainly not the last, where the internet …
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For all of you who are undergraduates, the University of Ottawa is hosting a conference for Linguistics undergraduates. They have posted a call for papers soliciting abstracts (for 20 minute talks, 1 page abstracts) for undergraduates who are interested in presenting, but the hitch is that the deadline for submissions is today. So, if you …
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We’ve fallen behind the schedule that I set at the very beginning of the semester, but this is fine. It’s good that we’re having lively in-class discussions, and there was padding in the schedule anyway. Plus, because this class is pretty linear, with later things depending on earlier things, it’s important to be sure that …
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Ok, I think I’ve now finally responded to everybody who sent me one of the background surveys (from the “Homework 0” post). If you haven’t sent it to me yet, please do, it’s helpful for me in planning things to know where everyone’s coming from. (And if you didn’t get a response from me, then …
Although it is true that what I put on the handout doesn’t exactly reflect what Adger had written in his textbook, I’m not yet completely convinced that the handout wasn’t actually correct. However, regardless, the source of the discussion in the textbook at that point (with respect to the Hopi dual) is drawn from Hale …
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As you are reading the textbook, it would be a good idea to consult David Adger’s list of errata. I’ll announce others here as well, as they are discovered.
Here’s the first “homework”, just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did it right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. But the questions are: What other Linguistics courses (or related courses) have you taken? What are your (actual …