Readers who have stayed with me since March may recall the invitation I received to address an International Psycholinguistics Meeting in Brazil on the dichotomy between representational and derivational models. The organisers had mistaken me, a humble British librarian, for the distinguished professor of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Roeper.
I wrote to them twice to point out their mistake, but they continue to send me messages. The latest one arrived the other day, asking for a copy of my cv. I have supplied it: it may convince them that they have the wrong man. If not, I look forward to a first class flight to Rio and a few days in Brazil in January at their expense.
