“Cheat sheet”
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.
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Summary notes and practice finals posted
I have now posted the second installment of the Summary notes that attempts to cover the basics of the system we’ve been developing in a somewhat concise way. I have also posted practice finals from the past couple of years, complete with keys: F06 F08 F09 (keys: F06 F08 F09). I plan to hand the …
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Gerunds
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 saw John’s destruction of his hat
I’ve written up the example that we walked through in class on Tuesday: I saw John’s destruction of his hat.