{"id":128,"date":"2010-10-02T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx522f10\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-04-01T05:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T09:54:41","slug":"hw-4-avoid-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/2010\/10\/02\/hw-4-avoid-me\/","title":{"rendered":"HW 4: Avoid me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>me<\/em> in them.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that we don&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> know how to do those yet, so please substitute a name in for <em>me<\/em> in those examples.  I will try to remember to say this in class on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That, is consider these sentences to be <em>Balloons exploded above Pat<\/em> and <em>Ducks quacked near Chris<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with <em>me<\/em> is that we saw earlier on that we want to treat them as having category D, not category N, and it is not clear how something with the feature [D] can check an uninterpretable [<em>u<\/em>N].  We will resolve this issue before too long, but for the moment pronouns do not fit comfortably in the trees we&#8217;re drawing. On the homework you just turned in, this was ignored in the features that I gave you for the pronouns&mdash;there I called them Ns, but I should probably have used names there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t quite know how to do those yet, so please substitute a name in for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/2010\/10\/02\/hw-4-avoid-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;HW 4: Avoid me&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}