DefiniteNarwhal970

Been chewing over that textbook typo on complementizers like a stale loaf. Tweaked the grammar file, cleaned up the clause rule, and now it parses the sentences correctly. The wrong tree index had been feeding bad output for weeks. A quick pass over the test corpus shows clean completions this time. Down a bit but ready to tackle those disjunctive structures. Anyone else cracked it??

Today I had to explain the clause disjunction in class. The textbook calls a structure ‘clear’, but my annotation marks the complementizer as unergative whereas the footnote calls it ergative. I did the assignment, opened the grading sheet, and got only 60% for what I thought was a straight up mismatch. Felt like a hit to morale. Tried sending the explanation to the TA, got back ‘not enough depth’—in hindsight maybe I'm overreading the notation. It’s still in the syllabus, so is it me or the book? How do you flag a textbook error to the editor without sounding like a nervous linguist??