Big Easy, Part IV (travelog entry 18)
I am greatly relieved when we finally hook up with Chris and Tansy, who I know from my years in California, and their friend Loren. Chris is what you could call a straight shooter, and even when he’s...
View ArticleThe Big Easy, Part V: Jambalaya (travelog entry 19)
New Orleans is not like the rest of the south, it has a character all its own. The bayou, the swamp, the French and caribbean and creole influences, the voodoo, the vampires, the alligators, and the...
View ArticleCompletely Texas (Texas I, Travelog entry 20)
Austin On our last day in New Orleans, I wake up in the middle of a dream about Louisiana crab cakes and we head back to Surrey’s but they are still out of crab cakes for the crab cakes benedict. I...
View ArticleTexas vignettes (Texas II, Travelog entry 21)
Ruby’s BBQ Ruby’s BBQ is a little shack with a cool vibe. Various concert flyers and odd scraps of art adorn the walls, along with a cow skull with horns. Some of the art appears to be framed...
View ArticleLockhart, capital of Barbecue (Texas III, travelog entry 22)
Lockhart, population twelve thousand six hundred and ninety eight, has four barbecue places which are so good that the Texas state legislature has officially declared the town to be the barbecue...
View ArticleSan Antonio, home of the Alamo (Texas IV, Travelog entry 23)
San Antonio has a riverwalk, a shady carless oasis snaking along below street level and lined with restaurants and bars, a refuge from the heat and traffic of the surface. The banks of the river are...
View ArticleAuthentic tacos (Texas V, Travelog entry 24)
Texas is big. We see t-shirts proclaiming, “Texas is bigger than France.” Egon immediately decides to have a t-shirt made to read, “Alaska is bigger than Texas.” He likes to provoke people. I don’t, so...
View ArticleNew Mexico (Travelog entry 25)
We drive through some Indian reservations. Five hundred years ago, the Americas were incredibly diverse, populated by hundreds or even thousands of distinct tribes with distinct cultures. At least...
View ArticleReconstituting Generative Grammar
In the summer of 2014, Terje Lohndal, Artemis Alexiadou, Marcel den Dikken, Winnie Lechner and I decided to organize a round-table discussion in Athens (for continually updated information about the...
View ArticleSignificant mid-level results of generative linguistics
At the Athens conference in May 2015 (Generative Syntax in the 21st Century: The Road Ahead), the assembled linguists discussed some of the significant mid-level results that have come out of...
View ArticleMost cited works in Linguistics
Are these the most influential works in linguistics? These 100+ books and articles are all the works I could find on Google Scholar with at least 4000 citations as of today (January 7th, 2018; minor...
View ArticleOn the privativity of number and the possibility of negative feature...
It has been argued, most recently and forcefully by Omer Preminger (2014, 2019), that the feature specification for singular must be contained in the feature specification for plural, as on a privative...
View ArticleCompletely Texas (Texas I, Travelog entry 20)
Austin On our last day in New Orleans, I wake up in the middle of a dream about Louisiana crab cakes and we head back to Surrey’s but they are still out of crab cakes for the crab cakes benedict. I...
View ArticleTexas vignettes (Texas II, Travelog entry 21)
Ruby’s BBQ Ruby’s BBQ is a little shack with a cool vibe. Various concert flyers and odd scraps of art adorn the walls, along with a cow skull with horns. Some of the art appears to be framed...
View ArticleLockhart, capital of Barbecue (Texas III, travelog entry 22)
Lockhart, population twelve thousand six hundred and ninety eight, has four barbecue places which are so good that the Texas state legislature has officially declared the town to be the barbecue...
View ArticleSan Antonio, home of the Alamo (Texas IV, Travelog entry 23)
San Antonio has a riverwalk, a shady carless oasis snaking along below street level and lined with restaurants and bars, a refuge from the heat and traffic of the surface. The banks of the river are...
View ArticleAuthentic tacos (Texas V, Travelog entry 24)
Texas is big. We see t-shirts proclaiming, “Texas is bigger than France.” Egon immediately decides to have a t-shirt made to read, “Alaska is bigger than Texas.” He likes to provoke people. I don’t, so...
View ArticleNew Mexico (Travelog entry 25)
We drive through some Indian reservations. Five hundred years ago, the Americas were incredibly diverse, populated by hundreds or even thousands of distinct tribes with distinct cultures. At least...
View ArticleReconstituting Generative Grammar
In the summer of 2014, Terje Lohndal, Artemis Alexiadou, Marcel den Dikken, Winnie Lechner and I decided to organize a round-table discussion in Athens (for continually updated information about the...
View ArticleSignificant mid-level results of generative linguistics
At the Athens conference in May 2015 (Generative Syntax in the 21st Century: The Road Ahead), the assembled linguists discussed some of the significant mid-level results that have come out of...
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