I'm probably going to spamming a lot this weekend, fair warning

[schmerica]

FUNNY STORY:

After all the discussion about genderswap fic last night, I can't help giggling every time I read the word "cliticization."

This is even funnier when you keep in mind how many hundreds of pages of syntax reading I have to do today.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

"DPs from the inside and the outside"

...That's beautiful.

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

what readings do you have, anyway? now i am deeply curious.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Huge portions of Givon's Syntax, mostly. Also lots of lecture notes from this term. Functionalism wooooo!

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

man, i was never taught functionalism *at all*, except when i had to dig through typology stuff (...also by givon, incidentally) for a field methods course. have fun with that?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

ahahaha, dude, you know I'm at the UO, right? We have, like, one generative person here. You can practically see people trying not to spit whenever Chomsky's mentioned.

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

hee, well, there are generativists who also spit at Chomsky's name. dude is pretty divisive! but srsly, in the last two years i have been brainwashed into the minimalist program so hard. if nothing else, i view it as an ongoing and interesting logic puzzle, even if it maybe has nothing to do with how i think language *actually* works, heh. my preferred theoretical framework is DM, which i guess uses minimalism as a launch pad, but involves a gloriously large component of "make shit up as necessary!"