28.1392, Meet our Featured Linguist: Gillian Ramchand

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1392. Tue Mar 21 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1392, Meet our Featured Linguist: Gillian Ramchand

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:36:29
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Meet our Featured Linguist: Gillian Ramchand

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Gillian Ramchand! Read her story and more on our blog or on our fund
drive web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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My mother is from Scotland and my father is from Trinidad. When those two met
in Edinburgh and had kids, they eventually ended up living in the Caribbean,
first Jamaica and then Trinidad.   The world was less connected then.  I grew
up in a tropical paradise, which I despised for its smallness and lack of
connection to the world. I could not wait to get out. (Now I am much more
appreciative).  When I was 14 I wanted to be an Astrophysicist. My favourite
book was a book on physics and philosophy and I spent many fruitless hours
trying to get my head around quantum mechanics.  I’m sure I must have been 
unbearable.  I applied to universities in the Big World outside and got
funding to go to MIT for my undergraduate education where I double majored in
Math and Philosophy. The MIT decision was a turning point---  it could have
been very easily another university and another path.  I remember filling out
the forms to accept Princeton, and waking up at six am to retrieve the
envelope so that my mother wouldn’t mail it, and replacing it with the
envelope accepting MIT  instead. If I hadn’t gone to MIT, I would not have
taken my first linguistics class as an undergrad in the philosophy programme.
It was with Sylain Bromberger, and I remember my epiphany moment.  He put the
following sentence up on the board   `The girl saw the boy with the
telescope’,  and drew two different structures corresponding to the two
different meanings. That just exploded in my head.   Ever since then, I have
been obsessed with the syntax-semantics interface and particularly structural
meaning.

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