So, as I said when I handed it out, I kind of rushed homework one out the door, lifting it from a late homework from Syntax I that I liked but which I haven’t assigned in years. But there are a couple of things I should have said about it. Now, of course, you should all have already looked at it and so this information should be coming too late, but nevertheless:<\/p>\n
First of all, the first three problems ask for trees. I’m not expecting perfection, the main thing really is just a tree that has the basic characteristics. Because the second tree has the verb give<\/em> in it, I expect you’ll want to include little vP<\/em>, but there’s no need to mess around with features and so forth. It says “same ground rules as in problem #1” but of course, that was a problem from some homework I didn’t give you. So, there aren’t really many ground rules.<\/p>\n You do need to remind yourself how Binding Theory works. Principle A (anaphors like himself<\/em> must be bound in their binding domain, which we took to be “the clause”), Principle B (pronouns like him<\/em> must not<\/em> be bound in their binding domain), Principle C (r-expressions like “John” must not be bound at all).<\/p>\n Part E sentence (2) involves an “ECM” verb—these are special because the complement of the verb (believe<\/em> in this case) is just a TP, not a CP. Knowing this allows you to answer the question posed: what is the binding domain, is it TP or CP?<\/p>\n Part F says “Go back to homework #10”, but what it means is, “look above”—I pieced this together from two homework assignments that were numbered 10 and 11, so Part F is about where homework #11 starts.<\/p>\n We’ll talk about it in class—I do hope everyone had a chance to think through it, but the main thing is to try the puzzles and hand something<\/em> in as evidence that you’ve tried the puzzles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, as I said when I handed it out, I kind of rushed homework one out the door, lifting it from a late homework from Syntax I that I liked but which I haven’t assigned in years. But there are a couple of things I should have said about it. Now, of course, you should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx523s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}