Concept Map of My Work

This is my first try at organizing my life's work on the syntax of natural language in a kind of concept graph. I just indicate constructions and concepts and topics, not concrete physical things like papers, talks, courses, people, places or times. In two very important cases, I indicate language (Ewe and Khoisan) because they are crucial to understanding my work.

The general areas are organized around the perimeter, and are circled in red. 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. Similarly, simplest Merge is the foundation of my theory of argument structure, so there is a dotted line for that connection too. I am very intrigued to see how the dotted lines took shape! And I am noticing missing dotted lines even as I write.

I will probably try again later once I understand the connections better. I also need to work on the photo quality.