ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellows for 2019-2020

I have applied for this in the past, but did not get it. This time I was successful. Judy B. helped a lot, reading over my proposal and giving me feedback. So that is an important tip: Try to get advice from a successful past awardee.

Summary of Fieldwork Discussion Group 2018-2019

Here is a summary of our series of fieldwork talks for the academic year 2019-2019.

If you are interested in presenting next semester, please contact me.

The Internal Structure of Reflexive Pronouns

It does not look like I will be able to finish this squib to the degree I would want before I leave for Botswana. So I am posting it on my blog.

The Internal Structure of Reflexive Pronouns

Timeline of Wh-in-situ

I prepared this for my course. I thought others might find it useful. If anybody thinks I have left out something important, or made a mistake, let me know.

Opening Remarks: Antisymmetry and Comparative Syntax

Here are my opening remarks for the workshop in honor of Richard Kayne held at NYU on March 29 and 30, 2019.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7x3iq391at61v4u/Opening%20Remarks%20%28revised%29.pdf?dl=0

Counterpart

I have been catching up on a show called Counterpart on cable TV (as of March 2019) with my daughter. Here is the premise, as summarized on Wikipedia: “Howard Silk has been working for a United Nations agency based in Berlin for thirty years; however, his rank is too low for him to be told what his work really involves. In fact, the agency oversees a crossing point to a parallel Earth (the "Prime world"), a copy of Silk's world. This crossing point was opened or created by East German scientists in 1987 and these two versions of Earth have been diverging ever since.”

Students Supervised by Richard Kayne (1969-2019)

I tried to find a list of Richard Kayne's students, but couldn't find one. So I prepared this as a gift to him on his 75th birthday. The CUNY and NYU theses can be found on Proquest.