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Just learning my way around my new website! I’ll use this blog to make notes on thoughts I’m having, to announce upcoming talks and (when available) link to handouts for them, and so on.

For example, this weekend I’m presenting at the Stanford Workshop on the Status of Head Movement in Linguistic Theory, organized by Vera Gribanova and Boris Harizanov. Can’t wait to hear all about it!

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October 12th, 2019

Etiology of Hiaki echo vowels?

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

October 17th, 2016

Restitutive ‘again’ in Keine and Bhatt’s framework

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

October 2nd, 2016

Richards’ Distinctness, Gallego’s phase boundaries and Romance relatives

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

October 1st, 2016

Amazing scope judgement on kaita

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

September 22nd, 2016

Reading Preminger 2011, comment on Baker’s SCOPA

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

September 13th, 2016

Auxiliary selection ‘sees through’ restructuring!

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

September 13th, 2016

Testing my blog post functionality

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

August 23rd, 2016

Beyond beyond beyond beyond “Beyond embiggens and cromulent”

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