But seriously folks...

I got my Master's Degree in Linguistics and Information Science at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany.  Also, I work full-time as a software engineer and program in Java and (Objective)C(++), and am rather handy with XML technologies: XML, XML Schema, RelaxNG, Schematron, XPath, XSLT, and XML Object binding. These pages are devoted to serious stuff like that...

A paper from 2002 summarizing Antonio Damasio's theory of core consciousness, one of the main ideas from his book: "The Feeling Of What Happens", which is wonderful(his book, not my paper..).

I take a few psycholinguists to task for claiming to be able to measure event related potentials correlating to putative syntactic and semantic integration processes using brain imaging techniques. Claiming to be able to correlate processes stipulated by generative grammar with large-scale whole-brain engery patterns is a VERY bold claim indeed. I try to show that it is arbitrary, and in principle, many other interpretations of ERP data is possible, rendering the explanatory value of such an approach useless.

Primarily a summary of Ray Jackendoff's Tripartite Parallel Architecture and his ideas of lexical items as "correspondences", and "rules" as lexical items. This paper also has a section pointing out the problems of concieving of the process of language acquisition as a process of logical induction. It was in the process of writing this paper that I started getting interested in applications of Dynamical Systems Theory to questions of linguistics and neurolinguistics, which led to my Master's Thesis ......

This is my master's thesis. My thesis starts by pointing out the well-known fact that Generative Linguistics is in the midst of a crisis, and posits that its deep and abiding commitment to the Computational Theory of Mind is at the root of this crisis. I go on to introduce "Dynamicism",  the trend in cognitive science which uses ideas from Dynamical Systems Theory, cognitive neuroscience and embodied cognition. A summary of Dynamical Systems Theory follows, leading into a chapter on how "dynamical" modes of explanation relate to traditional linguistic ideas of explanatory adequacy. A treatment of Gerald Edelman's and Antonio Damasio's cognitive neuroscience follows, before summing up with a survey of existing dynamical accounts of linguistic phenomenon.