Incremental
Progress being made today – had a short discussion in semantics about deixis in Aymara, and it got me thinking an awful lot about Quechua systems of various things for this lexical decompositon paper I’m theoretically writing. So I did a little Google Scholar research (har) and I think I’ve hit upon a nice lexical field to sink my teeth in. Quechua has a really large set of what I’m calling conveyance verbs – like bring and carry. In fact, the dictionary listing for carry I’ve got has like 10 or 12 different verb roots. These include different verbs for “to carry by arm” or “to carry on the back”, and “to carry under the arm”. Good stuff! I’m hoping I’ve finally hit semantic gold here, cause I’m starting to lose faith that I’m going to have a great idea anytime soon. Phew.
So that was pretty much my whole day. Went to semantics. Had an idea. Graded papers, had lunch with my sweetie, came home, worked on said idea. Had dinner. Worked on said idea. Blogged! Finis. (Tukurqani!)