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Viktor77 wrote:I'm a bit giddy as apparently my views on the question of what kind of power the EU can most be described as being gives me a solid European orientation for an American. Every American in my class answered that the EU was most a market power. The one German, our Greek professor, and I, responded that it is more a normative power. The professor asked me if I had some sort of European connections because apparently he's consistently found this distinction when teaching this course (external relations of the EU). So it just made me momentarily happy that I see things from perhaps a more European perspective despite being American. This goes along with an interview I just did for a Belgian project called Faces of Europe (which a Belgian friend working for the project insisted I do despite not being European).

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I'm feeling a bit less psychotic today.
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I finally got most of the Caber logograms digitized (all I have left to do of the extant glyphs are draw some of the prepositions).
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Memorial service was a tremendous success--even if I did arrive to set up nearly an hour later than planned, and once the guests had already arrived. It was all very participatory, though I seemed like the only one taking full advantage of the host bar.

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My passport now has a super-shiny Russian visa in it, so now I can attend a conference in Moscow in June. And it's at least looking like there'll be awesome results to report...
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Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!

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kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about?

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Risla wrote:
kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about?
It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an integration of Phase Theory (in Minimalism and Distributed Morphology) with Optimality Theory and specifically Match Theory. I have two detailed case studies, on templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts and the Stem in Creek/Muskogee. Then I have a (bullshit) typology chapter to round it out.
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kodé wrote:
Risla wrote:
kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about?
It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an integration of Phase Theory (in Minimalism and Distributed Morphology) with Optimality Theory and specifically Match Theory. I have two detailed case studies, on templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts and the Stem in Creek/Muskogee. Then I have a (bullshit) typology chapter to round it out.
Sounds really cool! I will admit to being a sucker for OT. I'd love to try to read it if you wanted to send it this way, although in all honesty I'd probably get halfway through and give up (I don't remember much of minimalism or distributed morphology, and never read much about prosody).

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kodé wrote:
Risla wrote:
kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about?
It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an integration of Phase Theory (in Minimalism and Distributed Morphology) with Optimality Theory and specifically Match Theory. I have two detailed case studies, on templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts and the Stem in Creek/Muskogee. Then I have a (bullshit) typology chapter to round it out.
That deserves a PhD on the basis of the description alone :-)
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Risla wrote:
kodé wrote:
Risla wrote:
kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about?
It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an integration of Phase Theory (in Minimalism and Distributed Morphology) with Optimality Theory and specifically Match Theory. I have two detailed case studies, on templatic morphology in Chukchansi Yokuts and the Stem in Creek/Muskogee. Then I have a (bullshit) typology chapter to round it out.
Sounds really cool! I will admit to being a sucker for OT. I'd love to try to read it if you wanted to send it this way, although in all honesty I'd probably get halfway through and give up (I don't remember much of minimalism or distributed morphology, and never read much about prosody).
I'll send it your way, for sure! PM me your email. OT is indeed pretty great. :)
alice wrote:That deserves a PhD on the basis of the description alone :-)
haha, i guess. lots of technical stuff in there. but there are some decently widely applicable generalizations.

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kodé wrote:
alice wrote:That deserves a PhD on the basis of the description alone :-)
haha, i guess. lots of technical stuff in there. but there are some decently widely applicable generalizations.
No doubt. I'm still trying to work out the difference between structural essentialism and essential structuralism, and how they relate to ambi-generative models of stochastic phonological processes.
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Congratulations, kodé, and good luck! :)
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kodé wrote:Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
Congratulations!

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Just eight paragraphs of my grandfather's war memoirs left to translate! I'm on a roll!

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My band is on a roll! We're surely going to be ready for our concert on May 18!

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Ryusenshi wrote:My band is on a roll! We're surely going to be ready for our concert on May 18!
sweeeet! what kind of music do you play?

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Le Pen lost. That's a happy thing.

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Ars Lande wrote:Le Pen lost. That's a happy thing.

The number of commenters on the appropriate page of the BBC website who aren't happy is slightly less happy, however.
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alice wrote:
Ars Lande wrote:Le Pen lost. That's a happy thing.

The number of commenters on the appropriate page of the BBC website who aren't happy is slightly less happy, however.
I've checked BBC news out of curiosity, did they really call him the Big Mac?

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Happy thing: my second publication just went online. Took some time, but feels pretty good.
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I'll be honest--I tried reading the abstract and had no idea what half of it meant (neat stuff about a better way to make very tiny lenses, I got that much!). Nevertheless, that's very exciting!
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Same here. Congratulations anyway!

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Congratulations even though I couldn't understand it either!
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