Ora Matushansky Senior research fellow (UiL OTS) Chargée de recherche 1 (CNRS) Still drilling where the world is thin. There once was a lass from Paris, France who said that she preferred to wear pants. She was heard to exclaim, "Syntax makes me insane. I would so rather go out and dance." -- thanks to Eor

Contact Information

News

• I have moved to Utrecht to conduct a five-year research project on non-verbal predicate marking
   
• Presentations coming up
   
• Gender in Linguistics (last updated March 3, 2006)
  Further contributions welcome.

Downloads, including my MS-Word macros ( feed)

Developments in the site (19-02-09)

• New handouts added

Relatively recent additions

• The Russian equivalent of Confucius say - jokes about Stirlitz (in Russian)
• Does rap keep track of Minimalism?
• Some real sayings of Confucius
• Ora's alphabet
• A page dedicated to C. L. Moore
• Greatest hits from a linguist's perspective
• Something beautiful
• A syntactic poem (very moving)
• Another syntactic poem

Current points of interest

• My academic background
• Non-academic interests (click here for the index or)
  Read about Cesare Borgia, Cardinal de Richelieu, and Franciabigio
• Fun stuff on this site
• Current projects
• Linguistic links

The thought of the moment:

Decisions are easy if you want to maximize your future options

Other such thoughts

A poem of the moment: Madeira M'Dear (by Flanders and Swann, mentioned in LanguageLog)

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Last revised: 19-02-2009