Suboptimist

Syntax III: Syntactic Awakening

I’ve finished my last syntax paper. I wish I could come to you saying I’ve finished my last syntax paper ever, but it turns out my tentative schedule next year (my first as a graduate student) will be:

· Child Language Acquisition: I’m taking this because this is what I ultimately want to do with my career. I am in the MA program at the U only partly because I was rejected from everywhere else. I also want to get grounding in phonetics. However, to have any credibility getting into a program with a greater language acquisition/cogsci focus.

· Seminar in Arabic Linguistics &emdash Diglossia: I’m taking this mostly at the encouragement of my adviser. I am also interested in how diglossia in the Arab world is eroding, and how phonology behaves sociolinguistically. Nobody has looked at that in Arabic.

· Syntax III: I really can’t believe I’m doing this to myself. It’s required for my MA, so I may as well get it over with.