Blog Squibs

Here is a list of squibs that I have written specifically for my blog, meeting the following criteria:

a. They have not appeared elsewhere.

b. They have not been submitted anywhere.

c. They are not old papers written before my blog started.

d. They are syntactic analyses, not reviews or commentary.

e. They are short.

As of today (September 20, 2025), I have posted 24 squibs on my blog meeting the above criteria. They are listed by date in reverse chronological order.

1. September 20, 2025

How to Syntax: Not that I know of

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-to-syntax-iv-not-that-i-know-of.html

2. April 23, 2025

A Note on Wh-in-Situ in English

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-note-on-wh-in-situ-in-english.html

3. April 21, 2025

Some Scribblings on Nasal Gobbling

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/some-scribblings-on-nasal-gobbling.html

4. March 27, 2025

How to Syntax 3 (‘Only’ Modifying Noun Phrases)

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-to-syntax-3-only-modifying-noun.html

5. December 13, 2024

Scribbles on Agentivity

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/12/scribbles-on-agentivity.html

6. November 20, 2024

Romance s-Forms as Imposters

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/11/romance-s-forms-as-imposters.html

7. October 16, 2024

Bare Nominal Passives

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/10/bare-nominal-passives.html

8. October 5, 2024

A Smuggling Approach to HXPS

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-smuggling-approach-to-hxps.html

9. July 30, 2024

Phasal versus Non-Phasal Movement

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/07/phasal-versus-non-phasal-movement.html

10. July 26, 2024

*by it

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/07/by-it.html

11. July 16, 2024

Two More Arguments for A-Movement in Quotative Inversion

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/07/two-more-arguments-for-movement-in.html

12. July 5, 2024

Successive Cyclic Inversion

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/07/successive-cyclic-inversion.html

13. January 3, 2024

How to Syntax 2 (Adverbs with Attributive Adjectives)

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-to-syntax-2-adverbs-with.html

14. November 17, 2023

there as a Bound Variable

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2022/11/there-as-bound-variable.html

15. August 20, 2023

How to Syntax I (the now-that Construction)

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-to-syntax-i.html

16. January 5, 2023

An Asymmetry in Ellipsis and the Structure of UG

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2023/01/an-asymmetry-in-ellipsis-and-structure.html

17. December 29, 2022

The Sleeping Child

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-sleeping-child.html

18. December 9, 2022

Stranding Quirky Case: Revisiting Case Connectivity in Icelandic

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2022/12/stranding-quirky-case-revisiting-case.html

19. May 18, 2020

A Remark on Identity Conditions in Nominal Ellipsis

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-remark-on-identity-conditions-in.html

20. October 12, 2020

Forms of the Copula in English

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/10/forms-of-copula-in-english.html

21. February 4, 2020

Pronominal Agreement and Bound Variable Anaphora

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/02/pronominal-agreement-and-bound-variable.html

22. October 21, 2019

A Smuggling Approach to the Adjunct/Argument Asymmetry

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-smuggling-approach-to-adjunctargument.html

23. May 31, 2019

Spelling-Out NEG

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/05/spell-out-neg_31.html

24. April 20, 2019

The Internal Structure of Reflexive Pronouns

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-internal-structure-of-reflexive.html