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Date: | Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:36:33 +0200 |
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>We have are quiet.
SNIP
>Enjoy, this is your list!
>(until I kick you off)
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>F. Leon Wilson
>CHOMSKY List Owner
><[log in to unmask]>
Well, there were two things to have spurred me into sending this message.
First, the strange "we have are quiet". A new Hollander-like tribute to
someone I'm not familiar with? A lapsus calami? A new way to bring out
the lurkers?
Second, I wanted to introduce myself, as I believe that this little
cybercommunity should know at least something about other people in it and
also because I've felt a bit uneasy about cybervoyeurism.
My name is Djordje Vidanovic. I am a Professor of Linguistics at the
Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Nis, Serbia. My interests are
manifold, but they seem to have one thing in common - language. I've been
trying to find out what it actually is. My 1983 dissertation dealt with
the performative hypothesis and its aphasic language counterpart. I've
written papers on Chomsky and Kant, on Strawson and the social function of
language, on rules and strategies in language, on the possibility of
setting up a kind of experimentum crucis in linguistics. I've also been
interested in the mind-body issue and in computer chess programming. I am
45 and I graduated from high school in North Manchester, Indiana. I played
football and did a bit of wrestling for my high school. I also took part
in some chess tournaments. Can read and communicate in English, Spanish,
German, French and Italian, and, I guess, in Serbian.
Take care all of you lurkers.
DjV.
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