[ ∅null PRO having completed the number-crunching ], I submitted the grades. Your final grades should now show up in the Student Link. Thanks for a good semester, good luck on any finals that you may still have left, and have a good break!
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. …
I’m planning to be in my office on Monday from 1-3pm, in case you were interested in finding me during office hours. I will not be on campus on Tuesday, so this is really going to be the only office hours opportunity between now and the final.
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 …
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: …
Since there doesn’t seem to be anyone in the Syntax classroom after class, and since my scheduled office hours are right after class anyway, and since I still have some final bits of material I want to talk about in class on Thursday: My plan is to basically talk about the new stuff that there …
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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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I’ll plan to be in my office on Tue 10/12 (“Monday” in the eyes of BU) from 12pm-2pm, so if you want to come talk about syntax, feel free to stop in.
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 …
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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