Peter W. Smith

Linguist and Writer

Book now available

I’m happy that my book ‘Morphology–Semantics Mismatches and the Nature of Grammatical Features’ is at long last finished and released with De Gruyter. It’s a revised version of my 2015 dissertation and contains, in addition to the work that went i...

Lightref v0.1 released

Photo by Ramon Kagie on Unsplash I’m happy to announce that the first version of Lightref is now released and can be downloaded here. Lightref is a CLI that I developed for bibliography management, primarily aimed at facilitating making Bibtex bi...

Paper on DM and Minimalism

A few weeks ago I finished a paper that will appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Distrubuted Morphology. The chapter surveys the relationship, similarities and differences between Minimalism and Distributed Morphology and how the approaches to sy...

A bash function to index a book

Photo by naomi tamar on Unsplash Scope of the issue Commonly, in non-fiction there is an index at the end to allow readers to look at a collated list of topics that are contained within with page numbers where they are discussed, so the reader c...