A while back, there was a question in class about DPs that seem to be able to have adverbs in them, like the subject of John’s skillfully baking cakes amused me. I didn’t really provide a good answer to how to think about these in class, but I realized that this is actually covered in …
I’ve written up the example that we walked through in class on Tuesday: I saw John’s destruction of his hat.
In class, I spent a couple of minutes promoting next semester’s course on “current issues in syntax” and in the process showed the current state of the course blog, which has some information about the format, the schedule, and some ideas about what papers we might be looking at. The web address is: http://ling.bu.edu/blogs/lx500b1s11/ Although …
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In class today, I canceled Part 1 of Homework #7 because we haven’t really reached the point I’d want to be at for you to do it. With this blog post, I hereby cancel Homework #7, in its current form, in its entirety. To clarify: the task asked of you in Part 2 is something …
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I’ve now put together a list of talks (to be given at the BUCLD this weekend) that look to have something to do with syntax. You can get it using the link below. BUCLD 35 syntax talks (use the same password as for homework keys) As I mentioned in class, I have decided to add …
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Just a reminder of what was mentioned in class today: Homework #6 will be due on Thursday, November 11, a week later than I had originally assigned it for. You can retrieve the updated PDF file with the new due date for your collection, if you wish.