absolutely flummoxed

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officialunitedstates

golfers: i gotta go buy another $800 club and then leave my wife and kids for 7 hours to go walk and drive around a very thirsty lawn with my drinking buddies. i wear one glove and am incredibly sad inside

golf cw

kaththedragon

defectivegembrain

Syntax lecturer: so here’s some new information that changes the theory we’ve been working with

Me: thanks I hate it

linguist-breakaribecca

There were multiple times the professor essentially said, “Okay so I need to teach you this theory but it’s already outdated; I just need you to be familiar with it so you can see the difference in the new theories. I’m also about to publish a paper on even newer theories that will make these new theories obsolete.”

linguisticsnerd

Just thinking back to all my syntax classes where the professor explained a theory for a week or two and I would barely hold on and learn what the theory is all about, and then he throws the infamous question “so do you believe this theory?” and smirks at the class and you know he’s about to bash the theory he so carefully established for us. And it’s a repeating cycle weeks upon weeks.

So what is the framework we’re supposed to work with again?

linguisten

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Glossematics

frislander

The question which always sprang to my mind when we were being lectured on syntax in first year was “why?” - why is the only syntax they teach us in first year (which given the structure of the course many people won’t even follow up on) based on fucking X-Bar, a theory nobody’s used seriously in decades. I understand when your syntax professors are bending backwards to suck off Chomsky you’re probably only going to get teaching on generativist theories, but they don’t even so much as mention the minimalist program until part II, if you even get that far.

Source: defectivegembrain ahaha why i hate syntax class that was already a tag lmao syntax linguistics here's another one: even the whole idea of syntax tree diagrams is one i'm not sure i can get behind