skip to main
|
skip to sidebar
Inishmacsaint
'Island of the sorrel plain'
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
More on Chapter 1
Another 10 or so pages completed on Chapter 1, plus some revisions of earlier material in the chapter.
Click here to download pdf
Newer Posts
Older Posts
Home
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
About Me
Nigel Duffield
View my complete profile
View of Kobe from Rokko mountain
Popular Posts
Head-First: On the head-initiality of Vietnamese clauses
Link to PDF file This is the final draft version of an article on CP and 'Yes-No' questions in Vietnamese that will appear in 201...
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...
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...
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...
Why Shakespeare is wrong about Love
This is a cross-posting of two pieces I posted on the Family blog Devenish , which is now suspended. When I started regular posts on Devenis...
Expatriotism
For the intro music, click here It’s Christmas Day 2008. I’m sitting alone in Starbucks in Mikage, a suburb of Kobe, Japan, having just dr...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Blog Archive
►
2018
(1)
►
April
(1)
►
2017
(1)
►
October
(1)
►
2014
(2)
►
June
(1)
►
January
(1)
►
2013
(10)
►
November
(1)
►
October
(1)
►
June
(1)
►
April
(2)
►
February
(1)
►
January
(4)
▼
2012
(4)
►
October
(1)
►
June
(2)
▼
April
(1)
More on Chapter 1
►
2011
(20)
►
December
(1)
►
November
(2)
►
October
(2)
►
September
(1)
►
August
(1)
►
July
(1)
►
June
(6)
►
May
(1)
►
April
(1)
►
February
(2)
►
January
(2)
►
2010
(5)
►
December
(3)
►
November
(1)
►
March
(1)
►
2009
(2)
►
May
(1)
►
March
(1)
►
2008
(2)
►
December
(1)
►
November
(1)
►
2007
(3)
►
September
(3)
Links
Academic Home Page
Vietnamese Grammar Project (Draft Monograph)
Family Blog (Devenish)
Quick Linker
Amazon.co.uk Widgets
Topics
Aspect
(2)
Beatles
(1)
Cambridge
(1)
CamCos3
(1)
Canada
(1)
causative constructions
(2)
child language
(1)
children
(1)
Chomsky
(3)
Competence and Performance
(1)
crap music
(1)
Cultural Relativism
(3)
East Asian vs. Western differences
(2)
Emotions
(1)
English participle constructions
(2)
Face Discrimination
(2)
Fodor
(1)
German poetry
(1)
home
(1)
Inner Aspect
(1)
Japan
(1)
Japan teaching
(1)
Japanese Language
(1)
Japanese vs. Westerners
(1)
Language Acquisition
(9)
Layered Syntax
(1)
Linguistic Relativity
(8)
Love
(1)
M
(1)
madeleine mccann
(1)
Meaning
(2)
Meaning and Cognition
(4)
Metaphor
(1)
Minimalism
(8)
Modern Irish
(1)
Monograph
(2)
morality
(1)
news commentary
(1)
Nigel Fabb
(1)
On Language and Linguistics
(24)
One Direction
(1)
Other Race Effect
(1)
parenting
(4)
Polarity Emphasis
(1)
Politics
(1)
popular music
(1)
Psycholinguistics
(1)
publications
(1)
Sapir-Whorf
(2)
Semantics
(1)
senses
(1)
Shakespeare 116
(1)
Syntax
(1)
Syntax of Questions
(2)
Tense
(2)
Theories of Cognition
(2)
Thinking for Speaking
(1)
Trouble at t'mill
(1)
unaccusativity
(2)
Universal Grammar
(3)
Verse Design
(1)
Vietnamese
(4)
Vietnamese grammar
(9)
Writing Systems
(1)
Followers