Archive - Sentence Appreciation

Hempel's narrator toys with expectations about what information can be taken as given.

Jan 1

December 2022

Details ground the character in the moment with lots of sounds—branches snapping, monkeys’ greeet greeet greeets, and other onomatopoeias.

Dec 10, 2022

November 2022

Hempel takes full advantage of the many hidden expectations and functions of linking verb constructions, which can be deceptively complex.

Nov 26, 2022

In this excerpt, Chopin plays with balance in various ways, to reflect the protagonist’s mental imbalance.

Nov 25, 2022

"The nearest neighbor is from the South, and how he knows if he likes you is he puts on Hank Williams and do you know who that is singing?"

Nov 24, 2022

This is Sentence Appreciation, a newsletter about literature through the lens of a linguist.

Nov 24, 2022

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