Remember to use positive affirmations. I am not a dork is not one of them.
I had a relatively decent meeting today, and a possible topic for a paper in one of my courses. It won’t be a particularly brilliant paper, but she’s fine with that — it’s all about getting an idea of where and how to go about finding an appropriately sized topic and write about it in semantics. I can do it in syntax, and I can do it (though I choose not to) in phonology. But semantics!
So this will be fine, and it might or might not turn out interesting, but it will at least be something new. And it will be good for me. (It will just be about quantifier and wh interactions, along the ever so overstudied lines of “Who loves everyone?” vs. “Who does everyone love?” — but crosslinguistic!)
And still I am somewhat sad, tonight. I’m not sure why, exactly. But so it goes. Tomorrow will perhaps be better. Ladusaw will be around, which should be neat. Also it’s warm here, it’s supposed to be 16 tomorrow, and warming up all week.
October 31st, 2003 at 11:11 am
That sounds interesting. Do you feel comfortable talking more about what you’re doing with that? I mean, the semantics v. syntax/phonology.
November 2nd, 2003 at 11:11 am
I would, but I’m not sure what you’d want me to talk about. What I’m writing my paper on? What I’ve written papers on in phonology and syntax? Random babble, as I do most of the time?