Ugly Trees
Hoping ‘outstanding drawings skills’ are not part of the job description for a syntactician I’m enthusiastically halfway through my little paper assignment on syntax and semantics.
Some people just have it. They’ll draw a nice tree at the first attempt. I’m not one of those. My trees need to undergo extreme make-over before even readable.
Luckily linguistics don’t deal with superficials. It’s the outcome, the inside that counts in the end. I hope. Anyway that’s what’s been keeping me busy since Ddorf. At the same time I’m planning for a new show next week and worrying about the dollar that might threaten my iPhone plans…
…to be continued.

October 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Yay! S -> NP VP, VP -> V NP etc… :-D
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Genau so! Men jag skippar regelbiten, i japanskan är ordföljden i princip fri så skulle bara bli en D-uppsats istället ;)