I am very pleased to announce that my paper, "Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English" has been published in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory! doi.org/10.1007/s110...
my mom grew up on Buena Vista Road in Hot Springs, AR, which the locals pronounced as /bjunə vɪstə/.
when everything’s a clitic…nothing will be…
i absolutely was not getting veintinueve in my head. that’s the native-english-speaker bias for you!
the code-switching—the multiple grammars—the translanguaging—of it all
i agree that i am unable to look past this! what words do you have for those linguists who say that this is productive in some people’s grammars, and not actually hypercorrection?
“apart of” instead of “a part of”
loving this(:
the universal AND existential quantifiers feature heavily on the new Bush’s Beans merchandise #semantics
New manuscript on agreement optionality in English sentences such as "There was/were problems" to come out of my doctoral dissertation from earlier this year! Comments welcome. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
“do you consider your trans?”
“yes. yes i do!”
“Do you consider your trans?”
If you don’t want your diversity/demographic questions on your application portal to feel like an afterthought, at least make sure the sentences are grammatical.
why aren’t we using the prefix “cyber” as productively as we used to? now seems like a great time for that, honestly
At this store you can buy: passives, quotative inversion, specificational copular clauses, and subject-object inversion.
nothing at all 🙅♀️
clitty city, as my non-linguist spouse called it
action shot 📸 (Going Romance 2025)
The English translation on this sign at a restaurant in Venice seemed weirdly colloquial and southern. I can only
read it in a “Y’all, we’re full up!” kind of way. How it ended up on this sign is a great mystery of our time.
depictive text!
that’s awesome!!
Is anyone able to provide me with a copy of the following reference?
Taraldsen, Knut T. 1992. “Agreement as Pronoun Incorporation”, paper presented at the 15th. GLOW Colloquium, GLOW Newsletter, 28, 50-51.
Thanks!
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on the universality of Merge (Chomsky 2004)
whaaaaaaat
New squib with @christcollins.bsky.social about A-movement in OVS inverted clauses in Russian in which we contrast smuggling vs leapfrogging analyses!
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New paper on quotative inversion in Setswana and English! I show that the construction in two unrelated languages can be accounted for uniformly: in terms of smuggling!! Enjoy! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
me too!! (if that wasn’t obvious from my question…)
who’s going to LSA?