December goal: read JRC papers and make research proposal decision

to postpone the decision until this time next year.

Ha!

Have skim read two out of three three, and have to admit that as well as being initially bewildering, I did find an interest being piqued, as they say. Both mention analysis of Japanese relative clauses in terms of pro, though the Kitao paper dimisses this analysis. Might be worth a second look, I suppose. I did always enjoy a bit of pro in English case marking, so that’s a possible line of attack. More reading needed though.

A quiet day at the office tomorrow, so I’m hoping to get through Head-internal RCs and interpretation of indefinite NPs. A bit excited about that because I’m hoping there might be a way of incorporating the Kamp-Heim indefinite analysis. Unfortunately this will also need a lot of re-reading, since I can’t remember a single thing about it (hey, it was four years ago) other than the fact I thought it was absolutely the best thing since sliced bread. Other than negative polarity, obviously, but I’m not going to get that into a paper on Japanese relative clauses.