It’s just been called to my attention that homework #6 has a typo on it, in the example tree. The example is passive. Little v should not have a [uN*] feature on it. An unfortunate copy & paste error on my part. You can download homework #6, v1.1, containing the corrected tree to take a …
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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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.