Looking at homework #4, I realize that we didn’t get to the material that is relevant for doing sentence (2) in section 1. We will talk about that on Tuesday, and it’s discussed in the book and on the handout. You might want to wait on that one until Tuesday. The rest of it should …
Though class starts in 20 minutes, let me anyway point out that it was actually something like a typo on the homework that the directions to which Part III referred said that you should expect to have four steps. Part II has four steps. Part III only has three steps, since it has fewer lexical …
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Very quick note on homework #3, part 1: In case this wasn’t clear, you are being asked to provide the theta roles and the arguments for each of the sentences, including both the (a) sentences and the (b) sentences. Doing this will also make it much clearer what I’m asking in part 2. Also, on …
I believe that I have now emailed back all of the homeworks #2 that I had in electronic form. If you didn’t get the homework either in person in class or emailed back to you, and you think that you should have, then let me know.
For those of you who emailed me homework #1, the graded ones should now have been mailed back to you. If you got it to me late, I might still have it, but otherwise I think everybody should have them back now. I will try to be sure they get out in a more timely …
On homework #2, you are asked to draw a couple of trees. Draw them as per the instructions: no node labels, and only nodes that you have evidence for (and triangles over strings of words with no brackets). Don’t use anything like VP, V’, etc. This isn’t a test to see if you remember what …
For those who will soon be getting their electronically submitted homework back, or for those who picked up their written homework either in LX500 or in my office, the score on the homework is out of 35. I will be putting up a key shortly, so you can see a little bit more explanation of …
When you are considering (f) (postcards from Greece) and (h) (a book of postcards) in part 1, you ultimately want to conclude that these are constituents. And, furthermore, (f) should appear in the list for one of the meanings, and (h) should appear in the list for the other of the meanings, in part 2. …
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Talking to a couple of you earlier today, it came to my attention that there’s something funny about (i) in part 1 when you’re doing the constituency tests. This part is testing the constituency of received a book of postcards from Greece. What’s funny about it is the way the tense works. Received is in …
In an earlier draft of this problem, the sentence that the whole first chunk of the homework revolves around was about a book of cars, but I changed my mind at some point, thinking book of postcards sounded much better. However, “part 5” still refers to cars at the end. The parenthetical part there should …
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