Ordinary Working Grammarian

Here is a step by step procedure for generating a FLEx file from an ELAN file, and then generating an ELAN file from the F...

All linguistics graduate schools require prospective students to write a Statement of Purpose (SOP). And faculty members of those schools pl...

[This is a revision of an earlier post (October 9, 2019), responding to feedback that I received at that time.]

In this post, I will lay out the contours of two evolving poles in North American linguistics departments: psycholinguistics/c...

Sam Epstein was professor at Harvard from 1988 to 1997. During this time, he directed the thesis work of a string of stellar s...

My blog recently passed 20,000 page views (not including my own page views). In honor of that occasion, I have decided to summ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of transcribing and translating some oral texts with the help of my consultants. I took the oppor...