Bonus
Despite the obvious disadvantages of being not only the only theoretical linguistics grad student in department, but also the entire state of Rhode Island, there is the perk of not having to share any resources with anybody else (except for perhaps ambitious undergraduates). This means that you may find yourself in the library on a Wednesday afternoon, searching for a copy of Yoad Winter’s dissertation, and finding a copy of BHP’s Montague Grammar sitting on a top shelf. It’s been checked out a total of seven times: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2003 and now 2008.
The Winter dissertation? Checked out for the first time today.
Another library anecdote after the
I tried to locate a copy of the Gazdar, et al. GPSG book the other day and came up with this:
I assumed that the only possible person who could have it was Ben Russell and cursed the library gods above, but later that day, I was cleaning off my work desk and found it under a stack of papers. Prior to finding the book, the following sentence would not have been true on a de se interpretation of the pronoun:
Emma thinks that she is hogging the GPSG book.
emma :: Apr.30.2008 :: linguistics :: 2 Comments »
interestingly, i have a really hard-to-impossible time getting that reading.
that’s probably because i meant “would not” and only typed “would”