Comps II.1
Have just gone back and titled all posts to resemble header above. ('Cept Comp I vs. Comp II.) Yay! for a tiny bit of order in the universe.
Am tired. Am so tired, fucked off for most of the day. Not a good thing, not a good thing at all...but am, in some ways, further ahead on this comp than on last one at this time. Last one: reading, had not written a thing. This one: have written introduction, outline, notes to outline, piled up many quotes for use in paper. (Have also rediscovered minimalist beauty of Notepad for writing on crappy laptop monitor. Font bold, but oddly pretty!)
Something I learned from last time, that. While reading, write down notes. Shock! Amazement! Am. so. stupid.
Still, last comp was strange, hybrid thing of approaches I knew nothing about with approach I love. Have no clue how it turned out, since cannot re-read essay without need to vomit. This one is interesting topic, some new material but not much (though once again have desire to have Croft's babies. glad I did not express this to him while he was here! though GT and BT figured it out, damn their black souls), and one I have written on before with lesser understanding. Have better understanding, except for two things...
1) When quoting verbatim from source, need to include their quoting of source? Book reads: "blah blah blah (Berkenshank 2004) blah blah blah." Must quote in paper also have citation?
JARGON LOADED QUESTION!
2) How do generativist (Chomskyian) historical linguists explain layering? Do not quite understand that, never have, have yet to find how they approach it. Possible to posit different rules/sub-rules for different uses, perhaps.
Head pounding. Going to bed. Anticipate much writing again tomorrow. Should, I guess, note here that when talk about giving up linguistics for night job at hotel, am joking. Partially. Often amuse myself considering "menial" jobs could be working instead of being academic. Stems from still being unsure about this whole academic thing...oh well. BED!
Berkenshank,Keirb. 2004. Cognitive Performance in Primate Language: A Study of Novel Adjective Use. John Benjammins: Amsterdam.
Am tired. Am so tired, fucked off for most of the day. Not a good thing, not a good thing at all...but am, in some ways, further ahead on this comp than on last one at this time. Last one: reading, had not written a thing. This one: have written introduction, outline, notes to outline, piled up many quotes for use in paper. (Have also rediscovered minimalist beauty of Notepad for writing on crappy laptop monitor. Font bold, but oddly pretty!)
Something I learned from last time, that. While reading, write down notes. Shock! Amazement! Am. so. stupid.
Still, last comp was strange, hybrid thing of approaches I knew nothing about with approach I love. Have no clue how it turned out, since cannot re-read essay without need to vomit. This one is interesting topic, some new material but not much (though once again have desire to have Croft's babies. glad I did not express this to him while he was here! though GT and BT figured it out, damn their black souls), and one I have written on before with lesser understanding. Have better understanding, except for two things...
1) When quoting verbatim from source, need to include their quoting of source? Book reads: "blah blah blah (Berkenshank 2004) blah blah blah." Must quote in paper also have citation?
JARGON LOADED QUESTION!
2) How do generativist (Chomskyian) historical linguists explain layering? Do not quite understand that, never have, have yet to find how they approach it. Possible to posit different rules/sub-rules for different uses, perhaps.
Head pounding. Going to bed. Anticipate much writing again tomorrow. Should, I guess, note here that when talk about giving up linguistics for night job at hotel, am joking. Partially. Often amuse myself considering "menial" jobs could be working instead of being academic. Stems from still being unsure about this whole academic thing...oh well. BED!
Berkenshank,Keirb. 2004. Cognitive Performance in Primate Language: A Study of Novel Adjective Use. John Benjammins: Amsterdam.