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The What and How of Self-Promotion
I know, I know: You’ve been wanting to read my dissertation, but didn’t want to download it and have to print it out or view it on a computer screen. Well, the wait is over. It has been published by...
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The Literal-Minded Linguistics Supplement
UPDATE, May 31, 2011: This file is no longer available. This posting is primarily for instructors of introductory linguistics classes. If you’ve sometimes directed your students to read...
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RNWs: Theory and Evidence
This month, my categorial-grammar analysis of right-node wrapping (RNW, aka “Friends in Low Places” coordinations) was published in Theory and Evidence in Semantics, a book edited by Erhard Hinrichs...
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September Links, and a Contest
Some new linguistics blogs have appeared on the scene, which I’ve liked well enough to put right onto the blogroll. The Chronicle of Higher Education website introduced a blog in August, called Lingua...
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Three Off-Blog Pieces
In this post from January, I mentioned a secret project in which I had been called upon to distinguish adjective-participles from verb-participles. That same project also inspired my next post, in...
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A Panphonic Poem for Mission: Impossible 3
This weekend, I want to see Mission: Impossible 3, in spite of Tom Cruise. Wait, no. Not in spite of Tom Cruise. That sounds like Mr. Cruise doesn’t want me to go see this movie, and I want to go and...
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Popularizing Linguistics Through Online Media
Sometime last spring, I got an email from Doug Bigham, a linguist at San Diego State University who I’d met at LSA 2011. He wanted to put together a special session for the LSA 2015 conference that...
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