Cognitive Science
Culture, Numbers and Language Over the past five years, following the publication of my ‘Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Piraha’, I have…
Shaping the Future of Business Education
BUY NOWShaping the Future of Business Education: Relevance, Rigor, and Life Preparation Business today is changing more rapidly than at any time in history.…
Linguistic Fieldwork
BUY NOWLinguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide A handy beginner’s guide, Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the…
Why There are no Clitics
Why There Are No Clitics Why There Are No Clitics was written when I was a formal linguist. Nevertheless, I think that the basic…
Evolution of Language
I am writing a book for Profile Books of the UK and Liveright publishers in the US (an imprint of WW Norton) on language…
Recursion
Recursion You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Where is recursion? ” (4.8MB .ppt file) This paper (final version in progress) was presented…
Phonology
Phonology This page contains a sampling of work I have done in phonology over the years. As with all reference to my research publications…
Morphology
Morphology Wari’ Periphrastic Pronouns (pdf) looks at periphrastic pronominal paradigms in Wari’, arguing for a central role for paradigms in morphological theory. This appeared…
Ethnosyntax
Ethnosyntax Slides for talk at University of Amsterdam – April, 26, 2013. My personal take on linguistics field research, Coherent Fieldwork, in Linguistics Today, main talk…
About the Pirahas
the Pirahas I initially went to work with the Piraha people on December 10, 1977, as a member of SIL International, with the intention…
Personal Archeology
Personal Archeology I came into Linguistics serendipitously. Although I have always been interested in languages, largely due to growing up on the Mexican border,…
Past Events
2020 EVENTSFebruary 26, 2020 – Speaking on my book, How Language Began: Presented by Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and…