Tuesday, January 23, 2024

On Implicit Arguments and Logophoricity (Angelopoulos and Collins, poster for NELS 2024)

By combining Collins’s (to appear) theory of implicit arguments with

Charnavel’s (2019) theory of exempt anaphora, we explain crosslinguistic

variations in the distribution of exempt anaphors.

 Poster

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

How to Syntax 2 (Adverbs with Attributive Adjectives)

This is the second of a series of blog posts showing how I think about a syntax problem when I first notice it. For the first installment, see:

How to Syntax I (the now that-Construction)

I will occasionally choose phenomena that I notice, and talk about them in an informal fashion, breaking down the process of preliminary syntactic exploration. That is, I am just thinking off the top of my head (brainstorming), with few or no revisions. Ideally, I will give myself a time period of three hours maximum to prevent polishing. The focus of the discussion will be on process. I am not trying to come up with a polished analysis.