There is a problem in the statement of the system you’re to be considering for Question 2 on HW5. It just doesn’t work as stated, so if you’re having trouble figuring it out, this might be why. There are two ways that I could fix this, they’d each be equivalent for the purposes of this …
A couple of things I think might be worth saying as I’m reviewing the homework I gave out. First, as I pointed out in class, the leadup to the last problem in the homework (having to with the “disturbing alternative derivation”) refers to a paper by Fox & Pesetsky that we haven’t read, although I …
Ok, I’m late on this, but having had a closer look at the Boskovic paper for next week, I have concluded the following: This paper is dense enough with things that are going to be unfamiliar and difficult that I think we can limit the primary discussion to the parts before section 2.2 (pp. 351-364), …
While reading the Rizzi articles, you will come across a couple of things that you probably aren’t familiar with, although the papers assume that you are. Let me just add a couple of notes here concerning things that I’ve been asked about over email. I may add further notes of this sort as I get …
Just to let people know, I’m not going to be able to make my office hours tomorrow. I’ll also be offline from mid-afternoon tomorrow until late tomorrow night. So, if you were thinking of stopping by tomorrow, it would be better to email me (or to stop by my office hours on Thursday). Back to …
If you were going to skip class anyway on Tuesday Feb 10, Noam Chomsky is giving a political talk (not a Linguistics talk) at Boston College: http://tinyurl.com/cfpsyj.