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 …
I have now posted three practice midterms and their keys, linked from the schedule page. They are essentially the actual midterms from Fall 2005, Fall 2006, and Fall 2008. I have tweaked them slightly because there were a couple of things I asked about that we haven’t quite reached yet. I didn’t come up with …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Greetings! This is where the CAS LX 522 Syntax I site will be for Fall 2009. I don’t have it fully set up yet. Until it is ready, you can get a pretty good idea of what it will be like, however, by looking at the pages for the Fall 2008 course: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/course/lx522-f08/