Hi everyone. Ok, I’ve gotten enough requests for extensions on homework 5 for various reasons that it is now officially due on Tuesday, Nov. 3. You may of course feel free to hand it in today if you’ve got it done and don’t want to fiddle with it anymore. Along with this, I want to …
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If you want a more thorough example of Agree in action, you might take a look at the updated version of the Pat must not have been sending flowers to Chris derivation. You had a version of this (but without Agree) in preparation for the midterm. It’s possible that this is more detail than you …
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Just a quick reminder: Don’t forget that the current state of the schedule is kept here: http://ling.bu.edu/blogs/lx522f09/schedule/ Things have changed a bit since the copy I printed out for you at the beginning of the semester. Where the very first line of text says: Do not rely on the printed copy; instead consult the schedule …
Due to a faculty meeting, I have to move my office hours earlier this coming Wednesday (Oct 21). They will be from 3-4pm (rather than the usual 4-5pm).
Come one! Come all! Find out more about the major and minor in linguistics, as well as academic programs in French, Spanish, and Italian language and literature. Meet faculty and students who share these interests. Current and prospective students are welcome; please spread the word! Monday, October 19, 2009 from 3:45 to 5:00 pm, in …
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Ok, so about Homework #4. I didn’t want to give it back to you before the exam, but because I gave it back after the exam, I didn’t get much chance to say anything about it. The scores were overall quite low. You probably got a lower score than you might have hoped for on …
So, I see you’re reading the blog. Great! I’d stress again the value of doing so (read the blog!), except you are already doing it. Good thinking. But if you know somebody else in the class that isn’t reading it, you may politely question their wisdom. I treat the blog as a place to post …
Just a note about Binding Theory (which was covered on Sep 29, the first of the handouts labeled “5a”): The textbook does not really cover this, or give you the standard names (Principle A, Principle B, Principle C), it’s just on the handout. But I do expect you to know this a) for the midterm, …
Also, just to reiterate what I said in class: the part of the material that is being covered in the midterm is up to (and including) section 5.2 of the textbook, and the things on the handouts. (This includes the modification that I made, to make M its own category, which is not the way …
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For use in reviewing what’s going on as of now in the syntactic system we’ve put together, I’ve created a fairly elaborate derivation of the sentence Pat must not have been sending flowers to Chris. It includes pretty much everything relevant that happens along the way in creating this sentence. This includes the information about …
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