I am very pleased to announce that my paper, "Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English" has been published in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory! doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Quotative inversion (QI) clauses in Setswana and English—two SVO languages—show a marked OVS word order in which a quote appears preverbally and the agentive external argument appears postverbally. In...
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my mom grew up on Buena Vista Road in Hot Springs, AR, which the locals pronounced as /bjunə vɪstə/.
the code-switching—the multiple grammars—the translanguaging—of it all
the universal AND existential quantifiers feature heavily on the new Bush’s Beans merchandise #semantics
New manuscript on agreement optionality in English sentences such as "There was/were problems" to come out of my doctoral dissertation from earlier this year! Comments welcome. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Defective circumvention: Multiple Agree as Minimal Search - lingbuzz/009574
In this paper, I show that complex agreement interaction effects involving optional agreement, weak PCC effects with multiple subjects, and obligatory participant probing can all be accounted for unde...
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“Do you consider your trans?” If you don’t want your diversity/demographic questions on your application portal to feel like an afterthought, at least make sure the sentences are grammatical.
why aren’t we using the prefix “cyber” as productively as we used to? now seems like a great time for that, honestly
At this store you can buy: passives, quotative inversion, specificational copular clauses, and subject-object inversion.
The English translation on this sign at a restaurant in Venice seemed weirdly colloquial and southern. I can only read it in a “Y’all, we’re full up!” kind of way. How it ended up on this sign is a great mystery of our time.
Is anyone able to provide me with a copy of the following reference? Taraldsen, Knut T. 1992. “Agreement as Pronoun Incorporation”, paper presented at the 15th. GLOW Colloquium, GLOW Newsletter, 28, 50-51. Thanks!
New squib with @christcollins.bsky.social about A-movement in OVS inverted clauses in Russian in which we contrast smuggling vs leapfrogging analyses! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Inversion in Russian, Smuggling, and Leapfrogging - lingbuzz/009494
Russian is a canonically-SVO language with relatively free word order (Bailyn 1995). As others have shown, OVS word orders for transitive clauses involve A-movement of the preverbal object (Bailyn 200...
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New paper on quotative inversion in Setswana and English! I show that the construction in two unrelated languages can be accounted for uniformly: in terms of smuggling!! Enjoy! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English - lingbuzz/009441
Quotative inversion (QI) clauses in Setswana and English – two SVO languages – show a marked OVS word order in which a quote canonically appears preverbally and the agentive external argument appears ...
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i’ve been experiencing this thing with iOS where I try to select a word in a text field, but the software instead tries to identify what it thinks is something akin to a larger constituent. aside from being annoying, it seems particularly bad at identifying a string that forms an actual constituent
Linguists will really say "the forbidden experiment" like people aren't performing it on the majority of deaf children in this country every day 💀
this past weekend, i went with my mom to the town she grew up in (Hot Springs, AR). when we were driving around in her old neighborhood, she pointed to an empty lot and said: “This house looks like they tore it down”
New manuscript available on Lingbuzz! Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses - lingbuzz/009223
This paper offers a novel framework for understanding agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses involving the verb haber. In these existential sentences, though the prescripti...
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Happy World Emoji Day🌎🥳📆!!! Let's all celebrate by reading my two published papers on the morphosyntactic combinatorics of emojis that function as "words"! Glossa paper: doi.org/10.16995/glo... JLCL paper: doi.org/10.21248/jlc... And more to come!! #worldemojiday
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