Noncompositional

What better time than now for a little self-promotion? As I mentioned here, my honors thesis, Claiming your territory: discourse strategies in Japanese [pdf] has finally been posting after some post-editing following my advisors’ suggestions. Truthfully, it still needs a lot of work before anyone would (should?) be interested in the stuff I wrote, but I’m putting it up nonetheless.

The gist of it is as I was thinking about the territory of information, I began to wonder about some of its basic assumptions, and particularly about what constituted the “obligatoriness” of particles that were supposed to be basically discourse particles. And furthermore, the findings presented in the works on ToI clashed hard with the basic assumptions of scholars of Japanese discourse like Senko Maynard as well as that of teachers of Japanese as a second language. Read more »

…yet another linguablog is created. It will continue to bear the name Every Way but One, which means I need to think of another name for my livejournal blog. In any case, my goal with this place is to record my thoughts on (mostly) linguistic matters, perhaps track my progress through graduate school, and in general just try something different.

Content to come.