I was listening to KCRW Music yesterday and Googled this strange song I was listening to, only to discover that the strange song was a recent single by Robyn (the Swedish pop star behind the 90s hit “Show Me Love”) AND an even stranger viral video cover of the song “Humps” by 90s hit artist, Alanis Morissette.
emma :: Jul.27.2007 :: misc, pop-culture :: 1 Comment »
Today is the last official day of the LSA Summer Institute. I furiously spent this week crunching through Treebank to get the data that I needed for Birner & Ward course and finally got my abstract in to them yesterday afternoon. It was nice to have this last Friday feel sort of like a free day, with no work to worry about doing on the train.
I just got out of Chris Potts’s Dimensions of Meaning, and I am really very happy that I got to sit in on that. Chris very nicely went over three main topics: appositives, expressives and quotation. With each, he showed how they had extra dimensions of meaning that were sometimes even very systematic in their extra-dimensionality, and the discussion in the expressives part of the course was especially engaging. (Any time you’re in a room full of linguists swearing up a storm, you can’t help but giggle, right? Especially if someone also makes a nerdy use-mention distinction joke about it all.)
And a great quote from Chris Potts from class today, during a discussion on scare quoting:
The direct object “moves” to [spec CP].
emma :: Jul.27.2007 :: semantics, linguistics :: No Comments »