Well, I guess that’s it. Seems like it raced by, somehow. But, thanks for an interesting semester, and congratulations on all you absorbed about the current state of syntax from the sort of “immersion-style” course/seminar this past semester. As you know, I’ll be on sabbatical during the upcoming year, but I expect to be around …
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 …
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In case you haven’t been keeping your eye on the Linguistic events in the Boston area page, there are a couple of things coming up on Monday. Both are at the same time, unfortunately, one at Harvard, and one at Brandeis. At Harvard: The Cognitive Revolution at Fifty, Plus or Minus One: A Conversation with …
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Greeting, syntacticians. Long time, no blogging. On the off chance that you are still checking the blog, the readings for the Across-The-Board constructions week have now been posted to the readings page. We will have Seungwan Ha there to talk through the concepts and his work on the subject (and with the remaining time I …
At the end of class last time, I sort of alluded to the readings, but I only just now posted the specifics. The readings include, first, a number of excerpts from Cinque’s (1999) book on adverbial syntax, and, second, a paper by Travis & Rackowski on Malagasy and Nieuan, with reference to Cinque’s story about …
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I was surprised to discover that I never handed out the final project specifications—I actually thought I’d handed this out at the beginning of the course, but it appears that I didn’t. So, here is a PDF outlining the different steps toward the final project (the project proposal, presentation, and paper). The proposal is due …
As spring break winds down (how could it be over already?), I have an announcement about Tuesday’s class. We will as planned discuss the papers by Kyle Johnson and by Danny Fox & David Pesetsky, but after that we will have Shai Cohen, a finishing graduate student from U. Mass Amherst, coming to talk to …
How is it Wednesday already? I meant to announce this earlier, but let me at least announce it. My normally scheduled 3-4pm office hours can’t happen today due to a BU faculty meeting. Instead, they will be 12-1 today, but as always, just email me if you want to meet and we can set up …
The McGill’s Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates is happening at McGill (in Montréal, just about 6 hours North of here) in late March (March 23–25), and they’ve sent around an announcement inviting submission of abstracts. The deadline is February 26, which is very soon. If you are an undergraduate and have something you’ve worked on …
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The machine on which this blog is run is having some technical trouble and needs to have a couple of bits replaced. (Literally, though I suppose it’s really just one: Somewhere in its gigabyte of memory, there is a single bit that won’t turn on, but this still warrants replacing the memory chip. Also, the …
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