I’ve gotten a few emails from people who wanted to meet to discuss homework 7 before Tuesday’s class, which is great, of course—but the homework itself is not due until Thursday’s class. If you are having trouble getting started on homework 7, or are unsure of a few things, then: You are not alone. I …
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Lately, I’ve quite often found that email arrives in my inbox after spending sometimes up to almost 24 hours dawdling around on the BU mail servers. Although it is true that I’m also drowning in email and don’t always respond immediately, it is not impossible that I simply haven’t received your email yet. Kind of …
The instructions for homework #6 got a little bit mixed up with respect to the numbering. What you’re being asked to do is draw three trees, one tree each for (1), (2), and (3), following the example given for (4). So, in other words, follow the spirit and not the letter of the instructions. I’ll …
I seem to have confused a couple of people with my previous post. Class will be tomorrow at the usual time. The usual time, however, is an hour more distant from last week’s class than it is most weeks, due to the conclusion of Daylight Saving Time. :p
Reminder: The time between last Tuesday’s class and this coming Tuesday’s class will be 10050 minutes, rather than the usual 9990. I wish you all the best in coping with the delay during this difficult time.
I promised this a while ago, but here are a few selected talks from this weekend’s BUCLD that might contain some recognizable terminology. This list is not exhaustive, though. Many of these will be about syntax beyond where we’ve gotten, or be about syntax and something else that you may not be as familiar with. …
I announced this a couple of times in class, but I failed to ever post anything about it. If you are going to the BUCLD this weekend and want to avail yourself of some possible extra credit toward your homework score, the deal is this: If you write up a short summary of two talks …