Ordinary Working Grammarian

Compiled by Chris Collins, Spring 2021 During my Spring 2021 seminar "Structure of Ewe", I started every class with a five minute ...

This paper gives a preliminary analysis of factive constructions in Kwa languages, including Ewe (Collins 1992), Fon, Yoruba (Bamgbose 1975)...

Here are four N|uu stories recorded and transcribed by me and Levi Namaseb. Each story is written in N|uu, English and Afrikaans. The N|uu o...

A subtitled video can be a great way to share you work with the community you work with and also with linguists. This blog post assumes that...

This exercise is appropriate for an advanced undergraduate syntax course (in my case Grammatical Analysis II), or a beginning grad syntax co...

Sometimes you need a picture of one of your consultants, but you only have video. It is possible to grab a frame from your video to use as a...

 Here are two pictures of my Peace Corps training group in Togo (1985). I believe we are in Atakpame (maybe one of them is in Lome). During ...