I just wanted to say that I’ve taken the GREs, and now am free to work on grad school apps and plan my Grand Travel Plans and go on an orgy of visiting folks and being super-social. It’s good. My mind is freed.
I’m here, now, in NJ. It’s good—it’s been insanely social since I got back, actually. I somehow managed to hit a run of parties and events. Good, but exhausting; up until 6am the other day, and regularly up to 2 or 2:30am. In other news, I’ve discovered a potentially dangerous new sensation: it’s fun to …
Monday I’ll be leaving to drive back east, across this too-large country. It’ll be an adventure of sorts, but I won’t be dawdling in the least. There may be some pictures. This blog (and everything else on this box) will be down for a few days, as it sits in the back of a car …
You know how sometimes one has Unpreparedness dreams about theater? The show’s going up, and you don’t know your lines? I had a dream that was basically the opposite of that. I arrived at the theater (which was a dream version of NHS’s theater, for those who know it), and found that they were doing …
This is kind of hilariously misguided, I think. Also: moving east in two weeks. Looking forward to seeing folks.
Hah, PADI open water certification is to me! Finally. The water was horrible, in terms of visibility, so we could see the sunken Cessna only from about 2 feet. But the whole thing was pretty awesome, and I really enjoyed the instruments-only navigation at depth. In other news, I’ve had songs from The King and …
Things I love about working here: boss A comes back from a few weeks vacation, and says that things went fine, he just got back to find the airline lost one of his bags, and his car is missing.* Boss B says “I’m getting you a copy of Dude, Where’s my Car?.” * It’s OK; …
There is no smell in the world quite so wonderful to me as wet stone. Waking up to a grey day is intensely invigorating.
Mark Rosenfelder, over at Zompist’s E-Z Rant Page, has just posted a very interesting review indeed. I’m glad to see him talking about this; Chomsky’s approach to data has been offending me for a while now, and Rosenfelder is one of my earliest linguistical influences, though essentially a lay one. Check it out; I’m gonna …
One can in fact view construction-based theories of syntax as upholding standards of grammar coverage that the original proponents of generative grammar abandoned, as they sought to reduce the theory’s dependence on linguistic facts. Chomsky (1995: 435) describes this shift in the goals of grammarians as follows: “A look at the earliest work from the …