Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak

Daniel Andreasson wrote:

>Hmm. Just a thought on the expression "Good for you". We have a
>similar expression in Swedish which is "Kul för dig". But the
>meaning is something like "Good for you. Myself, I couldn't care
>less." But, apparently in America, it's actually a positive and
>appreciating comment. It's hard to get used to that.
It can also be ambivalent in English, and it is quite often sarcastic. But
that isn't the way I meant it.

> > I think I have. I just need to talk to my local Chickasaw expert about
> > my analysis to see what she thinks.
>
>Now I've seen a photo of her and Pam. She looks _really_ cool!
>Not at all what I'd expected.
"She" being Catherine, I assume. She is a wonderful woman! So is Pam. Those
two were the biggest part of my decision to do graduate school at UCLA.

Anybody interested in seeing pictures of who Daniel and I are talking about
can visit my Prof's webpage at
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/munro/munro.htm. There is a picture
of the two of them at the top. If you read the page you'll get an idea of
my goals as a Linguist too, because Pam is doing a lot of the stuff I'm
trying to get into (though I enjoy syntax more than lexis.)

>It would be way cool to see your name in an article get-at-able at
>my uni library. Are there many people on this list which have been
>published in any linguistic journals? It would be fun to read those
>papers then.
It may not be much longer. I'm trying to get into an upcoming conference
(West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics), and people in the know have
told me that I have a very good chance. If I do present it, my paper will
be published in the proceedings. I've presented the material before, but in
a UCLA only "conference" that did not have any publication come from it.

> > Hmm. Actually, I'm an anti-Chomskyan, in that I really disagree with
> > Chomsky himself, not his basic approach. I guess it would have been
> > better to say the anti-structuralists or anti-theorists wouldn't like
> > my explanation.
>
>Hi there! :)  ... I think I would like your explanation, still.
>
>Daniel


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