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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 ...
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...
"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...
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...
Kanji, how I loathe thee!
Events of the last few weeks have led me to give some consideration to Japanese Kanji, and its moraic sidekicks, Katakana and Hiragana. F...
Snippet
Reading though another blog, I came across this gem . (For the benefit of non-native readers, this is perfectly acceptable, I think). What ...
Take any child (cross-posting)
Click for Justin on New Year's Eve Generally, I try these days to separate my posts: Devenish (this blog) for family-related mater...
About time (and participial interpretation)
Going through some 'odds-and-sods' files on my computer today, I found this snippet saved from a BBC News story in May 2002. As the ...
Recommended Reading 1
Over the last few months, quite a few of you have been kind enough to read some of the other posts on this site. Today, I have no particular...
Defining Goals (continued)
[This is a draft excerpt from Chapter 2 of a proposed monograph on Vietnamese, in which I try to tackle some general theoretical problems....
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