The schedule page now has links to the keys for homeworks 1–3 and some midterms from previous years to practice on, along with their keys. Note that for the homework keys, you need the username/password that I gave out in class, it’s not your BU Login password that you enter there. Email me if you’ve …
With respect to homework 4, I think rather than have people struggle with it, with a few things even still somewhat underspecified, I have decided to give you an extra class period to do it, which turns out to mean an extra week. So, I’d like to collect it on the day of the midterm, …
I just realized that I was a bit too hasty in coming up with sentences for you to do on homework #4. In particular, the fourth and fifth sentences have the pronoun me in them. It turns out that we don’t quite know how to do those yet, so please substitute a name in for …
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 …