Here's a very short story:
Last Sunday, the clock on my computer was an hour behind the other clocks in my house, and I was left wondering the time.
My question: is any bit of my short story ungrammatical?
As you may be able to guess, Linguistics is continuing to take most of my attention. Recently, I tried to take a break by doing something normal: I watched a couple episodes of a television show (Bones, which I downloaded on iTunes). Next thing I knew, I was having nightmares: I dreamt I was a detective, and I was trying to figure out what caused a plane crash by coming up with non-obvious disambiguations of multiply-quantified statements. (Strangely, it was the readings I was coming up with, rather than my methodology for solving the case, that bugged me most.) Lesson learned: don’t attempt normalcy when recreating. Today I took a day off, and ended up reading some of Heim and Kratzer's Semantics in Generative Grammar. Much less hazardous.
And as long as I’m making comments that are semi-random: you know what are really, really pretty? CPs! Yesterday I went to a talk in which they were discussed, and it (along with some things that I've been reading and hearing about in lectures lately) made me wish that I could spend the next few years just researching about them. At least, until I remembered the pretty Philosophy that I'd like to research as well, such as what will be discussed at NYU next weekend . . . (Now have fun and count the CPs that occur in this paragraph!)
Happy November!
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