Reading time: 10 minutes For this November’s post, I’d like to shine a syntactic spotlight on an unusual feature of English word order. While you might not know it from my online offerings, I am first and foremost a syntactician: words are fascinating, but it’s how we arrange them together that interests me most. TheContinue reading “Is This [Is] An English Question?”
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Walloons, Wales and Cornish Walnuts
The Wonderful World of *walha– This article is an adaptation of one I wrote for the brilliant interdisciplinary magazine Porridge, which you can find out more about at porridgemagazine.com. Note: the asterisk * is used for historically undocumented and therefore hypothetical words. I’D LIKE to tell you the tale of a headlong tumble down aContinue reading “Walloons, Wales and Cornish Walnuts”
Danny L. Bate 