Thursday, November 21, 2024

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 paper titles, 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 understanding my work. 

Not every syntactic topic that I have worked on is represented. The small amount of work that I have done outside of syntax, semantics and morphology (e.g., phonology, historical) is not included.

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. 


Here is a second try that I made the next day. It is basically the same content, but I grouped together the topics a little better.



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