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 (what it seemed to be about, what they seemed to be concluding, what the evidence seemed to be, and whatever comments you have—including notes on things you didn’t really understand), I’ll count that in place of the lowest non-dropped homework score. I envision the summaries being somewhere between a half-page to a page each.

Preferably, these would be talks that are somehow syntax-related. It’s not an absolute requirement, but I encourage you to try to choose talks that look like syntax.

If you can’t go to the conference, there will be some alternative opportunity for extra credit later on, so you won’t be disadvantaged if you can’t go, but you might as well take the opportunity if you can.