Remembering Rahul Balusu

I have just learned that Rahul Balusu has passed away. 

Smuggling in Syntax (Toc)

Forthcoming from OUP.

Workshop Announcement: Syntactic Approaches to Morphology

SCHEDULE

Venue: online (synchronous talks via Zoom)

Registration: There is no registration fee, but attendees need to register. 

For schedule and registration, click here.

Date: December 4-5, 2020

Organizers: Chris Collins (NYU) and Richard Kayne (NYU)

The purpose of this conference is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. Specific questions that could be addressed include the following:

Why a Working Grammarian need not be ordinary (by Henk van Riemsdijk)

(The following is a guest post by Henk van Riemsdijk responding to the following post:

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-beginning-of-syntax-version-3.html)

Three Monographs to Write

Here are the next three monographs that I want to write, presented in the order in which they will be written. Most of the material has already been written up (and posted on Lingbuzz and on my blog OrdinaryWorkingGrammarian in various forms).

Capturing Oral Texts

The purpose of this blog post is to lay out the steps required to capture an oral text. I keep the commentary on each step brief, but in some cases provide a link to further discussion.

Sound Recording Set-Ups for Video in Linguistics Fieldwork

I outline some sound recording set-ups that I have used. I am definitely not an expert, but I have not found anywhere on the internet laying out these options, and their pros and cons especially in the context of linguistic fieldwork. I believe that there is no best method. The one you use depends on the requirements and goals for the particular video.