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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Speaking Ewe: The Three Dialect Rule

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To speak Ewe in Togo, you need to know at least three separate dialects. Ewe is also spoken in Ghana and Benin, but I am not sure whether th...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Togo Diary (June July 2025)

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July 1 Tomorrow, I start some consultant work. I have lined up two teams, two women and two men, neither too young nor too old. We have sett...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Graduate Student Handbook (Linguistics)

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I put together some blog posts that I have written in the last few years which are relevant to graduate education in linguistics. In some ca...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Remembering Haj Ross

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When I was an undergraduate at MIT (1982-1985), I took Ken Hale’s graduate introduction to syntax. I remember a large guy in the back of the...

Outline: Introduction to Syntax for Undergraduates (NYU)

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Here are the lecture titles for my introduction to syntax at the undergraduate level: Table of Contents 1. Syntactic Data 2. UG and I-La...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

A Scope Freezing Effect with Inverse Linking

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Abstract: In this squib, I will discuss a scope freezing effect found with inverse linking. I will explain the freezing effect in terms of t...
Friday, May 9, 2025

On the Syntactic Status of Implicit Arguments: Greek as a Case Study (WCCFL 2023)

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 In this paper, we investigated the behavior of implicit arguments with respect to diagnostics such as control, binding, and secondary predi...