Just a note about Binding Theory (which was covered on Sep 29, the first of the handouts labeled “5a”): The textbook does not really cover this, or give you the standard names (Principle A, Principle B, Principle C), it’s just on the handout. But I do expect you to know this a) for the midterm, …
Also, just to reiterate what I said in class: the part of the material that is being covered in the midterm is up to (and including) section 5.2 of the textbook, and the things on the handouts. (This includes the modification that I made, to make M its own category, which is not the way …
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For use in reviewing what’s going on as of now in the syntactic system we’ve put together, I’ve created a fairly elaborate derivation of the sentence Pat must not have been sending flowers to Chris. It includes pretty much everything relevant that happens along the way in creating this sentence. This includes the information about …
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Ok, I’ve posted the Homework #4 key and linked it to the schedule page. I’ve gotten a couple of questions about showing the steps for the derivations in the first part of the homework. I’ve put some notes about that in the homework key. I’m pretty sure that when I said in class that you …
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I have now posted three practice midterms and their keys, linked from the schedule page. They are essentially the actual midterms from Fall 2005, Fall 2006, and Fall 2008. I have tweaked them slightly because there were a couple of things I asked about that we haven’t quite reached yet. I didn’t come up with …
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For the first sentence in part 1 Claudia gave mustard to Oliver, we do want to assume here that to Oliver is a Goal. That is to say, it is connected to the tree using Merge, in the same way that we saw in class basically. The other possibility for a PP like to Oliver …
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By the way, in case it wasn’t clear, you should be showing each step for the three sentences in the first part of homework 4. This is what you see if you look at the model on p. 144, as suggested in the problem statement. There aren’t a huge number of steps, I had 6, …
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It was just pointed out to me that in the instructions to the first section of the homework, I promised that I would provide the first step. But then it wasn’t there. I’ve reposted Homework 4 (version 1.1), including that first step. It’s pretty straightforward:
This is coming a bit later than I’d anticipated, but I’ve now posted the key for homework #3 on the schedule page.
Having discussed a bit the status of reports about polls in homework #4 with a couple of people, I have a couple of things to observe about that. I can say right at the outset that the way I intended this to work was basically like letters to Peter on Adger’s p. 107. That is …