Goodbye, LSA Institute
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 »