Ok…reading my title, most of you who know Wendy already knew this, and are perhaps wondering why it took me so long to realize it!
Well, I didn’t just realize it, thank you very much. I just finished being reminded by how abso-frickin’-lutely brilliant she is.
As she’s noted, she has finished her dissertation and handed it in…signed, sealed, delivered–done. Although I had numerous talks with her while she worked on it, doing some minor reference work for her (she had more than enough other stuff to do!), I hadn’t read more than a few sentences of the work.
Until today (ok, I started yesterday, but finished today).
As I was telling Wendy’s brother Nick via IM yesterday evening, it’s quite brilliant. In its just over 200 pages, she hones existing Linguistic tools (from the sub-field of Pragmatics), challenges contemporary historical theories, and provides a new tool for the study of spiritual texts! Not to mention some cool Medieval French usage, and an amazing chapter on the philosophy of language use…
If I listen to what Wendy says about me nearly every day, I quickly forget just how much smarter she is than me (she likes to make me feel up to the intellectual task of being her husband). After reading this, it’s going to take some effort on her part to make me feel intellectually adequate to that task! 
I’m very proud of her.
