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I am a third year English student specializing in linguistics. So far, I had a number of linguistic courses at the University, including several syntax (with an ongoing course in generative syntax) and phonology courses, courses in phonetics, morphology, semantics and historical linguistics. Currently, I am most interested in syntax and I would like to pursue it further in my MA and, later on, PhD studies. I am also very interested in the connections between syntax and semantics, especially how (and why) changes in syntactic structure influence the semantics (like the impact of passivization on the scope of negatives and quantifiers for example). One of my linguistic dreams is to prove that arguments can bear more than one theta role. So far, I have no clue as to how will I accomplish that. :)
I'd like to come to the Egg because I both heard a lot of great things about it from the people who were there before and the classes seem very interesting. In this year's Egg I'm mainly interested in the classes on remnants, Oystein Nilsen's class on reciprocals and Gereon Mueller's class on locality constraints. |