Ordinary Working Grammarian

Here is a pedagogical activity I use to teach syntax from time to time. 

It is that time of year again, and I have been doing some abstract reviews. I have quickly written up the following advice to ...

Here is a list of papers that I would love to write, but do not have time for right now.

As I have discussed in previous blog posts, non-experimental data, such as transcribed oral texts, is an excellent source of s...

June 24, 2022 Don't be afraid to explore.  June 24, 2022 If you elicit a sentence, take the time to ask the question: "Is there ano...

In this post, I narrate my vehicle breakdown and the lessons I learned from it.

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