Ok, that’s it. I’ve posted the grades for the final, graded all of the extra credit homeworks and other miscellaneous things. Phew. If you took the final or handed in the extra credit assignment, you should have gotten the keys by email. If you didn’t receive one of these, let me know, and I’ll try …
As you’re wrapping up the last bits of studying for the Syntax final, I want to remind you that it might be helpful to look at the Summary Notes part I and Summary Notes Part II. I believe I handed both of these out at some point during the semester. They are designed to be …
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It took me a while, but I have now had a chance to proofread the key to the Fall 2006 practice final, so it is now online (and a few copies are outside my door as well).
McCLU, the annual undergraduate Linguistics conference at McGill, has just been announced. If you have a project or research of some kind that you might want to present at a conference, this is a pretty good forum (and a good excuse to go to Montréal as well). Details can be found on the announcement to …
The extra credit homework has now been posted: Trees are easy to draw. Here is how this works. The homework is essentially a small syntax article, and your tasks are to fill in some of the steps of the argument, and ultimately to draw a tree for the sentence “Trees are easy to draw.” The …
On Tuesday December 8, I’ll need to move my office hours to 2:30-3:30pm instead of their normal time. So, if you were planning on stopping by, it should be between 2:30 and 3:30 rather than during the normal Tuesday time.
Sorry for the late announcement, but in case people are interested: Noam Chomsky will be giving a talk at BU on Tuesday at 6pm over in the CGS building. It’s a political talk, so it is unlikely to touch on Linguistics at all, but it’s still a chance to hear him speak. http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=93487&cid=17 “Obama, the …
As featured in class, the tree for “The yeti tried to seem to have been dancing.” You can also see it built up in a couple of steps that parallel what we did in class.
Here’s a worked out example for “My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz” sort of along the lines of what we did in class. It’s kind of complicated, but I hope it’s comprehensible. I didn’t put in the features, just the case assignment arrows and the movement arrows.
Hi everyone. Just to let you know, I’m still pondering what’s the best thing to do with homework #6. Even with the points cut in half to 17, small errors on those two trees were amplified more than I’d like in terms of point totals. I think I will do something, though. It might be …