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David Pesetsky @dpesetsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My heartfelt thanks to the linguist Denny Moore, who has done exactly what anyone investigating the Pirahã story and its aftermath should have done long ago. Namely: actually investigate. "Fact checking Geoffrety Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil" ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil - lingbuzz/009832

Geoffrey K. Pullum has repeatedly made severe accusations that the linguist Daniel L. Everett suffered mistreatment in Brazil because his research on the Pirahã people and their language threatened Ch...

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David Pesetsky @dpesetsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My heartfelt thanks to the linguist Denny Moore, who has done exactly what anyone investigating the Pirahã story and its aftermath should have done long ago. Namely: actually investigate. "Fact checking Geoffrety Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil" ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...

Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil - lingbuzz/009832

Geoffrey K. Pullum has repeatedly made severe accusations that the linguist Daniel L. Everett suffered mistreatment in Brazil because his research on the Pirahã people and their language threatened Ch...

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David Pesetsky @dpesetsky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ido Benbaji -Elhadad and I have a draft of a new paper about the syntax of ellipsis — just finished and just posted to LingBuzz. Comments very much welcome. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

Ingredients of Ellipsis: Silent Head, Silence Extended, and the Uniformity of Silence - lingbuzz/008647

This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that silences the head of t...

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