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Friday, May 31, 2019
Spelling-Out NEG
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In Collins and Postal 2014, a set of mapping rules were given for spelling out the abstract morphemes NEG and SOME. In this p...
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Imprinting
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There is an effect when students start to learn syntax that I will call imprinting : Whatever proposal is presented first to a student beco...
Friday, May 17, 2019
The Khoisan Languages
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This is a website built by students in my Spring 2018 seminar: The Khoisan Languages. We are still interested in getting volunteers to add...
Friday, May 10, 2019
Instructions for Grammar Elicitation Session Bundles.
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These are the instructions from our ELAR deposit for N|uu. The way that I store my data is very useful to me as a syntactician, so I thoug...
Saturday, May 4, 2019
ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellows for 2019-2020
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I have applied for this in the past, but did not get it. This time I was successful. Judy B. helped a lot, reading over my proposal and giv...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Summary of Fieldwork Discussion Group 2018-2019
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Here is a summary of our series of fieldwork talks for the academic year 2019-2019. If you are interested in presenting next...
Saturday, April 20, 2019
The Internal Structure of Reflexive Pronouns
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It does not look like I will be able to finish this squib to the degree I would want before I leave for Botswana. So I am posting it on my ...
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