Presley Pizzo

Things I Wouldn't Want to Be a Grad Student Without

• LaTeX After writing my undergraduate thesis without LaTeX, I decided never to write a serious paper without it again, and I wrote a LaTeX template for Emory undergraduate theses so that other people don't have to, either. Here's the tex file and the pdf.

• Zotero Like Endnote, except free and user-friendly.

• PhD Comics Speaks for itself.

Ways to Have Fun With Language Besides Doing Recursive Constraint Demotion

• Find the meanings of your last name, especially if there is a just protest against one of your referents going on back in the Old Country. ("Addio Pizzo" means "So long, mafia protection money.")

• Find the distribution of different pronunciations of a rock star's your name. (My pronunciation wins is more common.) Via Hrayr Khanjian.

• Find the frequency with which expletives combine with pretentious adjectives.

• Randomly combine morphemes. Via Lora Johns.

• The beginning of Canterbury Tales sung to the tune of For the Longest Time. Youtube also has a whole collection of Canterbury Tales raps.

• Supercazzola (Fake Italian)

• Prisencolinensinainciusol (Fake English, according to Italians)

• Latinus Maccheronicus (Fake Latin in Italian, starting around 8:10)

• Demonstrating the usefulness of 101: Spanish version, French version.

• "Talk to the hand" in French

• Presumably, the systematic use of complex symbols is unspecified with respect to nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. It appears that a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort does not affect the structure of the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. For one thing, the descriptive power of the base component is rather different from a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar. Nevertheless, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is not subject to a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. This suggests that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate a parasitic gap construction.
  The Chomskybot.