Dangler postings
Postings on dangling modifiers on Language Log and AZBlog
(thanks to Jim Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh for filling in gaps in my files)
☛ GP, 12/14/03: Dangling etiquette:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000218.html
☛ AZ, 7/7/04: Don’t dangle your participles in public:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001174.html
☛ GP, 3/1/05: Without Washington’s support… who?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001938.html
☛ GP, 3/10/05: Stunningly inept modifier manners:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001973.html
☛ GP, 5/12/05: The Fellowship of the Predicative Adjunct:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002153.html
☛ AZ, 5/16/05: The Dangling Participles:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002163.html
☛ GP, 7/4/05: Dangling modifier in the Declaration of Independence:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002290.html
☛ GP, 1/24/06: Unlike dangling:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002781.html
☛ GP, 2/12/06: Hanging up a participle without getting a subject:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002828.html
☛ ML, 4/26/06: Who is the decider?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003070.html
☛ GP, 6/14/06: Danglers: discourtesy, not ambiguity:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003249.html
☛ AZ, 3/24/07: Dangling in court:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004334.html
☛ ML, 3/25/07: Dangling in Paris:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004337.html
☛ AZ, 5/21/08: Why are some summatives labeled “vague”?:
☛ ML, 6/2/08: Advice from numbers:
[see comment by ML]
☛ AZ, 6/14/08: by-topicalization:
☛ 2/26/09: A spiritual accessory:
☛ ML, 2/26/09: Teaching zombie rules:
☛ ML, 4/7/09: Dangling as promised?:
☛ GP, 4/15/09: Who’s been to Australia?:
☛ ML, 8/14/09: Compared:
☛ GP, 10/8/09: A dangler in The Economist:
☛ 10/8/09: Dangling postings:
☛ GP, 12/17/09: A flicker of syntactic disquiet:
☛ GP, 3/20/10: Firemen, dental practice, and danglers:
☛ GP, 8/16/10: Free that jar, save those officials… unh?:
☛ GP, 11/20/10: Does it really matter if it dangles?:
☛ 3/2/11: Dangling advice:
☛ 3/5/11: Two danglers: The Danglerology Project:
☛ 3/23/11: Annals of danglerology:
☛ 6/1/11: Subject finding:
☛ 6/30/11: Stray books:
☛ 7/24/11: Disregarding context:
☛ 10/1/11: The context of danglers:
☛ ML, 4/15/12: Skipping the rat:
☛ 6/2/12: as a SPAR:
☛ 7/10/12: Dangler in the comics:
☛ 8/24/12:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/08/24/stray-books/
☛ 9/9/12: Dangler rage:
☛ 10/15/12: Annals of cataphora:
☛ 10/20/12: Possessive controller for SPAR:
☛ ML, 12/18/12: The New Yorker finds the U.S. Constitution ungrammatical:
☛ 1/6/13: A split-antecedent dangler:
☛ 2/10/13: Subjectless predicative adjuncts:
☛ 3/13/13: Another split-antecedent dangler:
☛ ML, 3/31/13: Ask Language Log: SAT “Identifying Sentence Errors” questions:
Ask Language Log: SAT “Identifying Sentence Errors” questions
☛ 9/25/13: The apostrophe and a non-dangler:
☛ 1/22/14: On the dangler watch:
☛ GP, 3/21/14: The grammar of “Abide with me”:
☛ 4/15/14: Ambiguity for leeches:
☛ 4/21/14: Why is this so hard to process?:
☛ 6/11/14: Book Notice: Visual Language of Comics:
☛ 1/10/15: Subjectless purpose adjunct:
☛ 1/18/15: Dangler time:
☛ 2/7/15: A dangler in Belfast:
☛ 3/18/15: The speaker is (almost) always topical:
☛ 3/25/15: Another acceptable dangler:
☛ 5/16/15: Today’s dangler:
☛ 5/27/15: Double anaphoric difficulties:
☛ 6/4/15: The hunted 95 per cent?:
discourse topicality; acceptable dangler in NYT
☛ 6/13/15: Ant-Man:
☛ 7/4/15: Shirtless body types:
☛ ML, 10/19/16: He’s still waiting:
☛ 3/4/17: The power of the Subject Rule:
sentence-final SPARs
☛ ML, 3/11/17: Decoding political attitudes:
☛ 11/23/17: Skip to the important bit:
reportive vs. expressive main clauses; parentheticals
☛ 12/20/17: after-SPARs:
after + TimeSpan expressions with predicatives
☛ 3/15/18: giving a speech on drugs:
non-dangling modifier
☛ 11/13/18: Return to Dangle City:
☛ 2/2/19: Resources: dangler examples:
link to the Page on dangler examples
☛ 2/6/20: As a Business Professional, …:
an example of a failed X-SPAR
☛ 5/4/20: Our reclusive pangolinists:
☛ 12/29/20: A fresh approach to English dangling modifiers:
Donaldson 2020 Ph.D. dissertation at Edinburgh: abstract and lay summary
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