Ordinary Working Grammarian

Abstract:   The purpose of this squib is to show that wh-in-situ is productive in English, even outside of echo-questions and multiple wh-qu...

After more than three decades working in academics (graduated from MIT 1993), this is a small list of things that I like and dislike the mos...

In my informal midwestern speech (raised in suburban Minnesota and rural Wisconsin), I can say the following: 1. I’mʌ nʌ go ‘I’m going to ...

After more than three decades working in academics (graduated from MIT 1993), this is a small list of things that like and dislike the most....

Consider the following two sentences, each involving an existential quantifier phrase and a universal quantifier phrase. 1. a. Some boy ...

MaS (Morphology as Syntax) is a framework which asks the question of whether putative morphological phenomena can be can be accounted for in...

This is the third of a series of blog posts showing how I think about a syntax problem when I first notice it. For the first and second inst...