27.2137, Featured Linguist: Milan Mihaljević

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Subject: 27.2137, Featured Linguist: Milan Mihaljević

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:22:05
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Milan Mihaljević

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Milan Mihaljević,
for Fund Drive 2016.

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My decision to become a linguist owes much to happenstance. At eighteen I was,
like many teenagers, in the metaphysical phase, searching for the meaning of
life. Although I was offered a very good scholarship for business studies, I
decided to study philosophy. At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
of the University of Zagreb we had to combine two programs. The major subject
(A) lasted four, and the minor (B) lasted three years. Naturally, I chose
Philosophy as my A subject. My first choice for the B program was English, but
the problem was that I had learned English only for a short period of time and
my command of the language was not good enough to pass the entrance test.
Therefore, I had to choose something else. I can't explain why I chose General
Linguistics, since until then I didn't know that such a program existed.
However, after few months I discovered that Philosophy was not as interesting
as I had expected and that Linguistics was far more exciting. I decided, and
with the support of Radoslav Katičić, who was the chair of linguistic
department at the time and later the supervisor of my PhD thesis, succeeded to
change Linguistics into my major subject. As a third-year student I discovered
Generative Grammar. The topic of my MA thesis was the relations between syntax
and semantics in Chomsky's theory.

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