In class on Tuesday, I decided not to go through the homework keys, but I mentioned that I’d try to post something that indicated which of them I would have gone through.

And then I got a monster cold that more or less knocked me out of commission for three days. But here I am again.

I think, in retrospect, I should have just said “all of them” so that you’d just look at all of the keys. But I did have a couple in mind. One of them was #6, about Navajo questions, which I kind of sketched out in class. The second part of #6, about Chinese A-not-A questions was also something I would have gone over; I had something in mind here, but few people saw what I was getting at in the first part of the problem, which made the later part of the problem harder.

I probably would have gone over at least the last part of #3, about “who else’s mother did you meet?” And question 5 of #4 about Weak Crossover, Italian, and what’s wrong with ‘To MARIA, Giorgio, his[Giorgio’s] mother will introduce.’ I might have gone over #8 about adverbs in English just because it’s kind of nifty, plus I wanted to make the point of question 3 in case it wasn’t clear.

I might not have gone over #7 (about linearization and adverbs) since more people saw what I was after there. I probably wouldn’t have gone over #9 except to say “oops, that one was kind of a mess.” Plus, most people actually did relatively well given the impoverished directions. I probably wouldn’t have gone over #5 because I would not have had time. And going over #2 would seem a bit far back to reach. I don’t even remember what #1 was now. But I would not have gone over that one.

I think that’s all of them then.