Peter W. Smith

Linguist and Writer

Reveal.js for Linguistics

This post is the first in a series that will outline how to use reveal.js to make slide shows for lingusitics talks. A lot of information is relevant for other academic disciplines as well. I do apologise to linguists who are not syntacticians or...

Paper published in Glossa

I’m happy to say that a paper I co-wrote with Sam Issah (Univeristy of Education, Wineba), Subject and non-subject ex-situ focus in Dagbani, has been published in Glossa. The paper discussed focus marking in Dagbani, and how locally moved subjects...

Paper published in the Proceedings of NELS 49

A paper co-written with Zheng Shen, Morphological and semantic agreement beyond hybrid nouns, has appeared in The Proceedings of NELS 49.

Latex And Git Tutorials

Over some weeks in the last semester, I taught a tutorial on how to use LaTeX most effectively for the students in the Graduiertenkolleg in Frankfurt, for when they are writing their PhDs. The slides that I used can be found here. The classes loo...