On Theta Roles
- Professor: When in doubt, it's probably a theme.
- Girl in Back: Or an adverb!
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A Whole Nother Blog
Linguist who only speaks English. Barely that.
Documenting my undergrad years. Also, I need an outlet for all the quirky information that I acquire.
~ Tuesday, March 20 ~
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~ Friday, January 27 ~
X-Rated Phrase Structure Rules.
My Syntax professor has a habit of describing overly complicated rules as, “nasty,” “raunchy,” and a bunch of other adjectives that makes it sound like we were having an entirely different sort of class.
I actually feel like posting one of these rules and tagging it with all kinds of sexual innuendos so that Tumblr pervs can feel a little bit of their time wasted.
~ Friday, January 20 ~
The Future.
Hey Linguists,
Sorry I haven’t been posting in a while. I need your help however.
It’s spring and I’m a Junior, and although I’m a Linguistics major, I know I will find an internship for the summer lol. (I actually plan to write a post on here about how you don’t have to work in academia to be a linguist.)
However, I want to start a WordPress to develop my writing, gather samples, and all sorts of professional.. stuff.
You guys are probably scrambling for ideas of your own to write about, but I was wondering if anyone had any questions about any focus of linguistics at all that I could answer? You could drop them in my ask, or whatever.
Is there one? Or more?
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~ Sunday, January 15 ~
“ The toothbrush is pregnant.
Tags:
Linguistics
Syntax
Semantics
Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
— I love how my textbook used this as an example for semantic ill-formedness instead of “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Franky, after seeing that example all over Tumblr, I dreaded seeing it in class. Two points for creativity!
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~ Wednesday, December 7 ~
Remember Tumblr pholks when writing your papers:
Syntactical is not the word you’re looking for.
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