6.xxx (AKA 6.803 and 6.833)

The Human Intelligence Enterprise: Spring 2009

FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE IUVABIT

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Semantics of Spatial Expressions (from Semantics and Cognition), by Ray Jackendoff

WRT: 1 hour

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

You dream that you are Ray Jackendoff. You have just finished the book in which the spatial-expressions chapter appears. Being impressed by the idea that it is good to keep a few key people informed about what you do, which you learned about from one of your graduate students who took 6.xxx while an undergraduate at MIT, you decide to send a copy to Winston, along with a cover letter drawing his attention to the spatial-expressions chapter. Suggest a page that you think will be of particular interest.

Exhibit your letter.