Chris Collins
@ChrisTCollins
A linguist specializing in syntactic theory, English syntax and African languages. #syntax #semantics #Ewe #Khoisan #negation #anaphora #argument_structure
Togo Diary (June July 2025) ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/06/togo-d…
Linguistic Subfields and Genetics ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/07/lingui…
Comments welcome: Ghanaian versus Togolese Ewe. ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/07/ghanai…
I am unable to connect to Facebook and Youtube in Togo. It has been a few days. I am not sure what it means. Does anybody know?
STAR: Syntactic Theory & Research star-linguistics.org
Great news: Syntax is now open access, under a new name. openlibhums.org/news/693/
Speaking Ewe: The Three Dialect Rule ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/06/speaki…
Togo Diary (June July 2025) ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/06/togo-d…
My blog is averaging about 200 hits per day (5,000-8,000 per month). If you are interested in posting, or responding to one of my posts, please let me now. Topics are: syntax and fieldwork, in the broadest sense. Let me know if you have ideas! ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com
Graduate Student Handook (Linguistics) ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/05/gradua…
I think this is one of the most useful documents I have written, on guidelines for collaboration: ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2017/07/collab…
Graduate student John David Storment successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Projecting (your) voice; A theory of inversion and defective circumvention” on May 2, 2025. Congrats, Dr. Storment!
Congratulations to John David Storment on successful dissertation defense. ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/05/congra…
A Note on Wh-in-Situ in English ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-note…
Some revisions: Top Likes and Dislikes of Working in Academics: ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/top-li…
A Monday treat: Some Scriblings on Nasal Gobbling ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/some-s…
Likes and Dislikes of Working in Academics ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/top-te…
New Horizons in Morphology as Syntax ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-ho…
#Chomsky on #language design youtu.be/MLk47AMBdTA?si… #generativegrammar
A Syntactic Approach to Case Contiguity journals.psu.edu/continua/artic…