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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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 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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I’m not sure if I mentioned this in class or not, but there are a couple of conventional symbols used to indicate the grammatical status of example sentences. I wanted to find this out there somewhere on the web, but my searches didn’t reveal much. The best I found was a writeup about “asterisk” on …
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.