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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Beginning Weightlifting for Fat People

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I am very fat, so I started weightlifting. In this blog post, I describe my experiences. I basically learned how to do it on my own through ...
Sunday, October 4, 2026

A Smuggling Approach to the Dative Alternation (2021, published)

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Collins, Chris. 2021. A Smuggling Approach to the Dative Alternation. In Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins (eds), Smuggling in Syntax, 96-1...

Parameters of Morphosyntactic Variation in Khoe-Kwadi (2025, with Anne-Maria Fehn)

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Collins, Chris and Anne-Maria Fehn. 2025. Parameters of Morphosyntactic Variation in Khoe-Kwadi. Transactions of the Philological Society 12...

Labeling without Labels (To appear, with T. Daniel Seely)

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Collins, Chris and T. Daniel Seely. To appear. Labeling without Labels. The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism. Link

Copies and Repetitions (To appear, with Erich Groat)

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Collins, Chris and Erich Groat. To appear. Copies and Repetitions. The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.  Abstract: The purpose of this pap...

Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y} (2017, published)

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Collins, Chris. 2017. Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y}. In Leah Bauke, Andreas Blümel, and Erich Groat (eds.), Labels and Roots, 47-68. De Gruyter Mouton....

Towards a Theory of Morphology as Syntax (2023, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, with Richard Kayne)

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Abstract: Phenomena traditionally thought of as morphological can be accounted for in terms of syntactic operations and principles, hence br...