This is my attempt (third version, the first two were handwritten) at organizing my life's work on the syntax of natural language in a kind of concept map. I just indicate constructions and concepts and topics, not concrete physical things like paper, books, grants, databases, talks, grammars, dictionaries, courses, people, students, colleagues, places or times. In two very important cases, I indicate language (Ewe and Khoisan) because they are crucial to organizing my work.
Not every syntactic topic that I have worked on is represented, but most of them are.The small amount of work that I have done outside of syntax, semantics and morphology (e.g., phonology, phonetics, historical) is not included.
The general areas are organized around the perimeter, and are circled. The sold lines are topics in a given area. The dotted lines are connections between nodes in the network. For example, Spanish Ustedes supports Morphology as Syntax, and that connection is indicated with a dotted line. I am very intrigued to see how the dotted lines took shape! And I am noticing missing dotted lines even as I write.
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