If you were wondering what I had in mind for some of those questions on the final, I have now posted the key for the Fall 2010 final with notes. I will have the scores for the final posted on Blackboard soon, at least by mid-day tomorrow. When you see your score, don’t panic immediately. …
In addition to the summary notes, you might also find this “cheat sheet” useful. It is a concise of summary of everything that occurred to me about the features/properties of each of the functional heads that appear in the structures.
On the topic of what material will be included in the final: Given the cumulative nature of what we’ve been doing, there is a sense in which the material will cover the whole semester, although for the most part it will be more focused on things like what we’ve been doing in the later part …
I’ve now linked all of the homework keys (including #8, which you just handed in recently) into the schedule page, so you can have them to study with.
There is now an extra credit assignment that you can do, and here is how it will work. Extra credit: Trees are easy to draw (this is a link to the PDF) The assignment is to run through a discussion of Trees are easy to draw, filling in parts of the analysis where indicated. NOTE: …
I’ll post details on how the extra credit things should work later today. A few people picked up the things I brought to class, but I’m not quite sure those are the final versions, so check back here tonight and I’ll let you know what the plan is for those, and how it interacts with …
I’ve had a few questions about the passive. We went through that maybe a little quickly in class, and a while ago. The main thing to know about the passive is that, in a passive sentence, there is a Pass auxiliary (“be”) which has, as a condition, that the vP in its complement not have …
For doing homework 7, and just for thinking about recursive possession, you might find it helpful to look at this example tree, for My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz. (posted on last year’s blog).
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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