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Friday, December 12, 2025

My Day (Friday, December 12, 2025)

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Objective: To give the reader an idea of the texture and contours of my day as an academic. Context: The semester ended Wednesday, so there ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Chris Collins: A Portrait of a Syntactician (written by ChatGPT)

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 Chris Collins, Professor of Linguistics at NYU, is a theoretically oriented scholar whose work is defined by clarity, formal rigor, and a s...

Summary of Ordinary Working Grammarian (ChatGPT)

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Ordinary Working Grammarian is an academically oriented blog devoted to natural language syntax, linguistic fieldwork, and the professional ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Syntax Interface Lecture, Utrecht (Introductory Remarks by Lex Cloin-Tavenier)

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Introduction Chris Collins's Syntax Interface Lecture at Utrecht University (December 4 2025) (posted with the permission of Lex) It is ...

My Thoughts on Case Theory (December 2025)

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Below are my current thoughts about Case Theory as of November 2025. These thoughts result from my reviewing the relevant literature during ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Case Theory (Class Exercise -- Graduate Syntax I)

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Syntax I Fall 2025 Class Exercise: Case Theory Objective: To evaluate and compare different theories of case. Format: Students will break ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

My Trip to Google (November 21, 2025)

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These are photos from my fieldwork expedition to the Google office space in lower Manhattan (near 8th avenue and 15th street). I was invited...