I may have just had a blinding flash of light concerning Hiaki echo vowels, which I have to write down […]

I REALLY enjoyed Stefan Keine and Rajesh Bhatt’s paper, ‘Interpreting verb clusters’, in NLLT. It’s a tremendous piece of work, […]

For the prelim class last week, I happened to read in quick succession Chapter 2 of Richards’ ‘Uttering Trees’ and […]

Today Maria gave us a super clear scope judgement about the Hiaki word ‘nothing’. We were trying to get ditransitives […]

…on p 933, after arguing for a clausemate restriction on the Person Licensing Constraint (person features must agree with an […]

Reading Roberts (2010) for my seminar on head movement, I learn this! “…The auxiliary associated with the restructuring verb can […]

Just learning my way around my new website! I’ll use this blog to make notes on thoughts I’m having, to announce […]

Aaaand — here it is, the fifth annual Simpson’s linguistic joke collection. Here’s links to the previous four years’ posts: […]