Robert Freidin is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University, New Jersey and author of Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications (Cambridge, 2012).
1. One fish two fish: an adventure in ambiguity
2. Exceptional students and teachers
3. Introduction to language and linguistics
4. A review of a book by two philosophers
5. Bob is certain to succeed
6. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife
7. Does every politician who cheats instinctively lie?
8. Inferior defenses could then, as now, be tackled, as Vernon did at Porto Bello, Exmouth at Algiers, and Seymour at Alexandria
Concluding comment.