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Nigel Duffield
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Grammatica una et eadem est (revised)
Reflections on Universal Grammar and the importance—or otherwise—of Language Diversity. [This is the revised text of an earlier paper ...
Do Asians really think differently from Westerners?
[This is an earlier version of an article that has now been accepted to Cognitive Linguistics . If you would like to formally respond to it...
Why can't we talk to each other?: Why can't we listen?
In a very thoughtful review of Fritz Newmeyer's Language Form and Language Function , Martin Haspelmath (2000) poses the (partially rhet...
Minimalism and Semantic Syntax: Interpreting Multifunctionality in Vietnamese
Full Paper Here Talk presented in Hanoi, May 11-12, 2013 Original Abstract This talk is concerned with a deceptively simple question: ...
"Tomorrow, after we got on the boat ..." (Past morphology as anterior))
Recently, I've been posting some of Julian's more interesting grammatical misanalyses. Most of them have been lexical, but the one t...
Understanding Language Acquisition
Lough Neagh, near Bushmills It has been a long, uneven process. It has taken me twenty years to distill everything I have observed abou...
Roll up for the mystery tour!
This commentary on Evans and Levinson (2009) has recently appeared in a special issue of Lingua . Please cite as: Duffield, Nigel (2010) Rol...
It's not my problem (with Chomsky)
(For linguists only, probably, this one) First, we had Humboldt’s Problem , then Plato’s , then Descarte’s , then Broca’s . Along t...
Defining Goals: Minimalist Angst (II)
[This is a draft excerpt from Chapter 2 of a proposed monograph on Vietnamese, in which I try to tackle some general theoretical problems. A...
Names and Faces, and Handedness (Preliminary Results)
Who would've guessed...? After years of not getting round to it, then (literally) months of preparation, I've been able over the ...
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