I’ve gotten enough questions about homework #1 that I’m going to make it due on Tuesday, not tomorrow. I’ll talk a bit about it tomorrow to try to make it clearer what I’m going for there—it does make sense, but I think it wasn’t stated in a clear enough way. If you somehow happen to …
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It has come to my attention that the term “inflected” may not be familiar to some of you, so let me just outline what “inflected” is supposed to refer to. The term “inflected” here means basically “with a tense/agreement ending.” Adults use inflected verbs generally, except in the infinitive (where there is no tense or …
The last question of the homework refers to a table concerning child utterances containing not, and gives the table in the same form as the others, crossing inflection in the stimulus with inflection in the child’s utterance. “But wait,” you might say, “you don’t get inflected verbs with not in English. What’s going on?” Indeed, …
Due to the fact that I am now teaching Semantics at the time I had previously set for my Wednesday office hours, I need to move them to a different time. Which I hereby do. My new office hours are: Tuesday 11-12 Wednesday 12-1 Thursday 11-12 However, if none of those are convenient, or indeed …
Somebody in the Semantics class today (Friday) left behind their LX540 textbooks, and I have collected them. Are they yours? Possibly, if (a) you used to have textbooks, (b) you no longer have textbooks, (c) you were kind of in the middle back of the Semantics classroom. Let me know if these conditions describe your …
The first “homework” comes in two parts. The first part is just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did this right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. Do this anyway, even if you know that I know you, I might …