Dr. JD

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?

i’ve been experiencing this thing with iOS where I try to select a word in a text field, but the software instead tries to identify what it thinks is something akin to a larger constituent. aside from being annoying, it seems particularly bad at identifying a string that forms an actual constituent

i feel like i get asked about this every time i teach intro

it was me

yeah…!

paraguay win

Linguists will really say "the forbidden experiment" like people aren't performing it on the majority of deaf children in this country every day 💀

i can the V2 language speak

this past weekend, i went with my mom to the town she grew up in (Hot Springs, AR). when we were driving around in her old neighborhood, she pointed to an empty lot and said:

“This house looks like they tore it down”

update: i tried the pie and the pie in american cuisine was indeed a very iconic pie (i also had the pie in Arkansas)

personally i think they could’ve made a few more explicit references to the fact that it’s a pie in this sentence

New manuscript available on Lingbuzz! Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

do you mean, like, the unicode decomposition?? or just vibes?

Happy World Emoji Day🌎🥳📆!!! Let's all celebrate by reading my two published papers on the morphosyntactic combinatorics of emojis that function as "words"!

Glossa paper: doi.org/10.16995/glo...

JLCL paper: doi.org/10.21248/jlc...

And more to come!! #worldemojiday

scholarly books are so expensive these days :/

absolutely! a lot of people seem to carry a tacit assumption that syllable = morpheme, which is mostly true for a lot of languages! but also it’s very untrue for many languages at the same time, one of which happens to be English

and salad refers to an advertisement about someone named Sal, i presume!

i think “water” is an obvious truncation of “waiter”, since waiters bring you water. and [wait+er] is definitely polymorphemic.

sure, “salad” etymologically polymorphemic, but that isn’t cognitively accessible to like any english speaker

this just in: water, carrot, and salad are polymorphemic (brought to you by google AI)

Happy to announce that a paper of mine has recently appeared in the Journal for Language Technology & Computational Linguistics! jlcl.org/article/view...

nice grammatical emoji !

💜 wiktionary 💜

At least one reason why I mostly don't write accents in my comics is basically this. Who gets written with an accent and who doesn't is always a tell.

Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

yoga instructor said ““keep pushing forward until you’re the best me that you can be” 💯

I have filed revisions for my doctoral dissertation! You can read it here: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...