Writing a Statement of Purpose for Linguistics Graduate School
A blog about natural language syntax. Topics will include (but are not limited to): syntax, semantics, morphology, typology and syntactic fieldwork.
It is that time of year again for linguistics students to start thinking of graduate school applications. In order to help them out, I wrote the following blog post. It is by far the most popular blog post I ever wrote. ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/12/writ...
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Ordinary Working Grammarian
A blog about natural language syntax. Topics will include (but are not limited to): syntax, semantics, morphology, typology and syntactic fieldwork.
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
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Comments welcome!
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The way that the Chomskyan method allowed us to find new data was by setting up semiformal models that encouraged us to look for new data (to test the predictions of the model).
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People who regularly use emojis, please choose the following sentence which is least acceptable.
1๏ธโฃ ๐ซต are responsible for ๐ซต own decisions
2๏ธโฃ ๐ซต are responsible for your own decisions
3๏ธโฃ You are responsible for ๐ซต own decisions
4๏ธโฃ I have no judgments on this
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People who regularly use emojis, please choose the following sentence which is least acceptable.
1๏ธโฃ Wow, ๐ซต must really love ๐ซตself
2๏ธโฃ Wow, ๐ซต must really love yourself
3๏ธโฃ Wow, you must really love ๐ซตself
4๏ธโฃ I have no judgments on this
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People who regularly use emojis, please choose the following sentence which is least acceptable.
1๏ธโฃ ๐ซต said that ๐ซต would help me!
2๏ธโฃ ๐ซต said that you would help me!
3๏ธโฃ You said that ๐ซต would help me!
4๏ธโฃ I have no judgments on this
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I want to read the book now. Thank you!
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Here is the next version of my concept map for my career in syntax.
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I am here now at Bluesky. I have not yet abandoned Twitter/X. This is my very first post (5:32am Wednesday). Hello everybody! I hope I find some linguists and syntacticians here.
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Associate Professor of Linguistics at Shaanxi Normal University. Research interests: Construction Grammar(sbcg), Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics interface, Chinese Linguistics. Personal website: https://standforever0410.blogspot.com/
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Syntax and variation.
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