F06 key posted
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).
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Extra credit: Trees are easy to draw
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 …
The yeti tried to seem to have been dancing
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.
HW7: My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz
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.
HW6: Still pondering
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 …
HW7: Note on nP and on German
Now that the Hierarchy of Projections for DP contains n, every DP has an nP within it. For homework #7, draw all of those. That means that there will be a lot of nPs. I expect that on homework #8, I will relent and allow triangles for some of these, but for homework #7 draw …
HW6: So, NP or DP?
Homework 6 has a strange status—I handed it out, then shortly afterwards said that all the NPs we’d seen before should actually be considered DPs. Following the principle that a homework generally covers material up to the class during which it was handed out, you can use NPs on HW6. But, on the other hand, …
Typo on HW6, announcing HW6 v1.1
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 …
Homework shift: Extension on HW5, removing one from total number
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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Pat must not have been sending flowers to Chris
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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