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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

On the Form and Function of MERGE (video by Daniel Seely)

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Abstract: This talk explores the form and function of the most fundamental operation of the Narrow Syntax, namely Merge. First, we'll g...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Three Facebook Threads on Morphology

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Here are three Facebook threads on morphology. They contain many posts by various linguists on the topic of morphology, and in particular th...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Job Interview Questions

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When you apply for a job and are invited for an interview, it can be a source of great anxiety. How do you prepare for such an interview? He...

Syllabus: Structure of Ewe (Spring 2021)

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 Here is the syllabus for my Structure of Ewe course. It is meant for grads and advanced undergraduates.  Syllabus: Structure of Ewe (Spring...

Syllabus: Grammatical Analysis II (Spring 2021)

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 Here is my syllabus for the second semester undergraduate syntax course.  Syllabus: Grammatical Analysis II (Spring 2021) I post it for the...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Required Documents during a Career in Linguistics

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Here is a list of documents that we are required to write in our careers as linguists, but for which we do not really receive any training o...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Interclausal NEG Raising and the Scope of Negation (Collins and Postal 2017)

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In this paper, we show that the syntactic analysis of one major type of NEG raising in Collins & Postal (2014) is inconsistent with the ...