The Blackboard site for this course is now functional. I couldn’t see a way to make a direct link, but if you go to http://blackboard.bu.edu/ and sign in, I believe the course should show up. As a reminder, the only thing I intend to use the Blackboard site for is a place to keep grades …
A couple of people have asked me about question 2, which is the one where I give you the features of a verb, but not the verb itself, and ask you to come up with a verb that fits it. Phrasal verbs like hand in or stir up are not really what you want here, …
One quick note about the problem about theta roles too: Don’t be concerned that the answers to all of the sentences are almost the same. That’s intended. The (a) sentences are going to generally be all alike, with some differences in whether there is a Theme or a Goal, that sort of thing, and the …
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I talked with a few people today about what exactly I was after in part 4, so let me say a couple of things about that here (I know it’s kind of late relative to when the homework is due, but I’ll try to post comments like this as soon as someone asks about them). …
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I discovered that I have a faculty meeting today when my office hours are supposed to be, so I will need to hold my office hours from 3-4pm instead of the usual time. Since the time I chose for Wednesday office hours is going to be subject to this kind of pre-emption frequently, I’m going …
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It has been brought to my attention by a couple of people, correctly, that what I said in (in homework 2, problem 1) part 4 about the meaning of part 3 isn’t correct. My actual judgments on the test sentences for Parts 1 to 3 are as follows: Part 1: [from Belgium]: The getting/sending had …
In case you hadn’t gotten this announcement another way: On Monday, this semester’s Globally Speaking program begins. This is a series of low-pressure, free (and no-credit) language courses in Arabic, Chinese, Dari/Tajiki, Russian, Hausa, IsiXhosa, Turkish, and Wolof. Reviews from previous semesters have been good, check it out if you are interested. There is even …
As promised, I looked at the homework and have decided that we are not yet ready for the third section (“Trees and Merge”). So, that section has been cut from the homework (you will see it again next week, but that part is not due Thursday). To reiterate in bold: YOU DON’T NEED TO DO …
Concerning the question that came up about the Hopi examples, I went back and tracked down the paper in which the examples were published. The full citation is: Hale, Ken (1997). Some observations on the contribution of local languages to linguistic science. Lingua 100:71–89. I put the paper on the readings page, and if you …
The first “homework” comes in two parts. The first part is just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did this right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. Do this anyway, even if you know that I know you, I might …