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Research Interests

Semantax - an interfield that sees syntax and semantics as inseparably interpenetrating; linguistic analysis of poetry

My primary areas of research are in semantax - an interfield that sees syntax and semantics as inseparably interpenetrating - and poetics - the study of verbal art with the help of detailed linguistic analyses of texts. In the former area, for the past forty-nine years, I have been collecting squibs - short notes about phonological, morphological or semantactic phenomena which defy analysis in current theoretical frameworks.

In addition, John Goldsmith, of the University of Chicago, and I are building a web-based archive of videos of senior linguists: Lives in Linguistics - a kind of oral history project. While the archive is small at present, our hope is that it may inspire other linguists around the world to assemble a visual record of all of our linguistic forbears.

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967.
  • Major: Linguistics/Constraints on Variables in Syntax
  • MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1964.
  • Major: Linguistics/A Partial Grammar of English Superlatives
  • BA, Yale University, 1960.
  • Major: Linguistics

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