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Mereological Syntax
Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands
ISBN: 9780262553278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 18, 2025
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet
ISBN: 9780262554015
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A novel reading of De rerum natura through the lens of neurolinguistics.
Language Is Gesture
ISBN: 9780262552912
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
A new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part.
When Arguments Merge
ISBN: 9780262549103
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families.
Principles of Argument Structure
Principles of Argument Structure
A Merge-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780262548274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive construction.
Endangered Languages
ISBN: 9780262548700
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
Disclosing the World
On the Phenomenology of Language
ISBN: 9780262551991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2024
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
ISBN: 9781915609083
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
Mereological Syntax
Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands
ISBN: 9780262553278
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 18, 2025
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes
Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet
ISBN: 9780262554015
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2025
A novel reading of De rerum natura through the lens of neurolinguistics.
Language Is Gesture
ISBN: 9780262552912
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 5, 2025
A new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part.
When Arguments Merge
ISBN: 9780262549103
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families.
Principles of Argument Structure
Principles of Argument Structure
A Merge-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780262548274
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive construction.
Endangered Languages
ISBN: 9780262548700
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
Disclosing the World
On the Phenomenology of Language
ISBN: 9780262551991
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2024
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Pidginization as Curatorial Method
Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
ISBN: 9781915609083
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
