Ordinary Working Grammarian

In this blog post, I outline what I am learning through trial-and-error about eating low-carb in West Africa.

This diary is the record of my stay in Togo during June and July of 2026.

Zachary Wellstood's doctoral dissertation (Berkeley) on Cua tone. Below is the eScholarship link to the thesis: Aspects of Tone in Cua A...

Here are two lengthy conversations that I had with Noam Chomsky on the topics of language, thought and formal semantics. I was very honored ...

You have spent a grueling year writing up your Qualifying Paper (QP) for your Ph.D. program. You have read and carefully studied dozens of p...

Doing syntactic research includes acknowledging ideas that you get from informal sources, such as blog posts, talks, conversations, etc. If ...

This blog post summarizes the confusing web of concepts associated with recursion, and comments on how they are related to each other. In pa...