Ordinary Working Grammarian

This paper is the introduction to the volume on Smuggling to appear (OUP) edited by Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins. Belletti and Coll...

Abstract: In this paper, I outline an approach to the study of thought from a syntactic point of view. I propose that sentence...

In this mini-squib, I sketch an approach to the adjunct/argument asymmetry that is based on smuggling. 

May 11, 2022 When you discover a paper relevant to your topic, study it. But then look at the references in that paper, and track down those...

I have recently had the pleasure of working with a number of new consultants. I took the opportunity to jot down some of the b...

The EPP can be a vexing principle for early practitioners of Chomskyan syntactic theories. This is, in part, because the theor...

This blog post is a prelude to future blog post: Why Video? In that blog post I will tackle the question of why a generative s...