Saturday, 31 August 2013

JE SUIS BOULEVERSÉ


Language and grammar are beginning to overwhelm. I confess a gap the size of the Grand Canyon. I am bouleversé by the likes of:
Clitic, proclitic, enclitic, anaphora, cataphora, the whole of morphosyntax, the syntax of reference and discourse effects in word order.

These matters are of some importance. Interpreting signs, in the manner put forward in my proposal to undertake a study of writing social identity in the environment, requires some passing knowledge of linguistics. The following passage is from Optimality-theoretic Syntax a book put together by Géraldine Legendre, Jane Barbara Grimshaw, Sten Vikner. Besides their own pieces, it includes contributions from Peter Ackema, Judith Aissen, Eric Bakovic, Joan Bresnan, Hye-Won Choi, Joao Costa, Edward Keer, , Gereon Muller, Ad Neeleman, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Peter Sells, Margaret Speas, , Colin Wilson, Ellen Woolford.

 Do I really need this?

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