The grammar of “freezes” - series of coordinate or adjacent elements which cannot be reordered. For example, up and down /*down and up; Scotch and soda / *soda and Scotch

Geoffrey K. Pullum has repeatedly made severe accusations that the linguist Daniel L. Everett suffered mistreatment in Brazil because his research on the Pirahã people and their language threatened Ch - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Geoffrey K. Pullum has repeatedly made severe accusations that the linguist Daniel L. Everett suffered mistreatment in Brazil because his research on the Pirahã people and their language threatened Ch...

Geoffrey K. Pullum has repeatedly made severe accusations that the linguist Daniel L. Everett suffered mistreatment in Brazil because his research on the Pirahã people and their language threatened Ch...

This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that silences the head of t...

This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that silences the head of t...