The yeti tried to seem to have been dancing
As featured in class, the tree for “The yeti tried to seem to have been dancing.” You can also see it built up in a couple of steps that parallel what we did in class.
Archive of entries posted on November 2009
HW7: My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz
Here’s a worked out example for “My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz” sort of along the lines of what we did in class. It’s kind of complicated, but I hope it’s comprehensible. I didn’t put in the features, just the case assignment arrows and the movement arrows.
HW6: Still pondering
Hi everyone. Just to let you know, I’m still pondering what’s the best thing to do with homework #6. Even with the points cut in half to 17, small errors on those two trees were amplified more than I’d like in terms of point totals. I think I will do something, though. It might be …
HW7: Note on nP and on German
Now that the Hierarchy of Projections for DP contains n, every DP has an nP within it. For homework #7, draw all of those. That means that there will be a lot of nPs. I expect that on homework #8, I will relent and allow triangles for some of these, but for homework #7 draw …
HW6: So, NP or DP?
Homework 6 has a strange status—I handed it out, then shortly afterwards said that all the NPs we’d seen before should actually be considered DPs. Following the principle that a homework generally covers material up to the class during which it was handed out, you can use NPs on HW6. But, on the other hand, …
Typo on HW6, announcing HW6 v1.1
It’s just been called to my attention that homework #6 has a typo on it, in the example tree. The example is passive. Little v should not have a [uN*] feature on it. An unfortunate copy & paste error on my part. You can download homework #6, v1.1, containing the corrected tree to take a …