Saturday, January 24, 2026

Being a Syntactician (Some Preliminary Posts)

I am trying to convey to a non-linguist audience what it means to be a syntactician. The goal is to write something completely non-technical that nevertheless gives the reader with absolutely no background a pretty good idea of what we do when we do syntax. I have written several blog posts on this topic already, which I list below. But I am interested in writing something more substantive. So consider these posts as a kind of scratch pad with my notes. The first and the third posts are a bit redundant.

The Personality of a Syntactician (December 24, 2025)

Thinking Syntactically (for Non-Linguists) (September 18 2025)

You Know You are a Syntactician When (April 17, 2017)

What Kind of Syntactician are You? (March 25, 2017)

Basic Skills in Syntax (Part I): Working with Syntactic Data (April 30, 2026)


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