Joshua Dees

Even more reason to adopt it! 😉

I may just start saying it like this for funsies lol

hey, did y'all know that the Linguistic Society of America offers FREE registration to K12 teachers, K12 students, and Indigenous scholars of the Americas for the #LSA2026 Annual Meeting? And it's not too late to register for the hybrid/online portion of the conference!

We maybe had a little too much fun planning this one 🤭

Friday’s Roundtable:
Moderator - John R. Starr (Cornell, LSA EC Student Rep)
Time - 3:30-5:00pm
Room - Studio 1, 2nd Floor

Saturday’s Roundtable:
Moderator - Josh Dees (UIUC)
Time - 1:45-3:15pm
Room - Studio 1, 2nd Floor

I will be your server, I mean moderator, at the LSA (Saturday) Student Roundtable Networking event. Come with your own burning questions for our expert chefs, I mean linguists. OR, order off of our menu of questions. Can’t make it Saturday? No worries, kitchen’s open Friday as well. See details 👇🏻

Pretty stoked that I’ll be a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but honestly geeking out that it will be for the Shrek balloon. 💚

UIUC photo!!!

🤩🤩🤩

Some people eat cereal as a midnight snack, you eat serial verbs.

I’ve just finished the last bit of grading for the semester. Finished the final conference talk handout for the semester too. The end is in sight. 🫶🏻

University Libraries launches Continua, a new open-access linguistics journal | Penn State University Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing has launched Continua, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring interdisciplinary linguistics research. The journal will focus on research that ...

Attention linguists -- especially those working on 'morphology' and the mental lexicon: @davidnatvig.bsky.social and I have started a new OA journal called Continua! Please keep us in mind as a publication venue! #OALinguistics

www.psu.edu/news/univers...

Want to get published? Join our virtual workshop on March 18, 5-6 PM (ET) to learn how to navigate academic publishing.

Speakers Prof. David Bowie & Dr. Aylin Coskun Kunduz will cover manuscript prep, peer review, and common challenges.

Register now: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA

Nominals at UIUC ♥️

😂😂

But we also don’t get it nearly as cold as you guys, so it’s only fair that you get warmer weather sooner lol

Jealous!!

We’re excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is now OPEN! Submit your proposals by April 14th and be part of this exciting event at the University of Suffolk, 2-5 September. easychair.org/cfp/lagb2025

Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory Abstract. This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approa

#Heritage languages and syntactic theory is out! in full #OA. Enjoy!
@oalinguistics

academic.oup.com/book/59663

Register Now for ILLS 17 | Department of Linguistics | Illinois The 17th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17) will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Coming on March 7th and 8th, we have an exciting weekend with 2 student led conferences! Register now for the 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (linguistics.illinois.edu/news/2025-02...) and the 17th Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference (linguistics.illinois.edu/news/2025-02...)!

Queer linguists: Be Gay, Learn Paradigms

Reminder about the @lingsocam.bsky.social FGAE mixer next Tuesday!

Sign up here to get a Zoom link: forms.gle/hrXpcPWCtMFR...

LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org

Resharing these gems from last year ♥️

FGAE has been a wonderful @lingsocam.bsky.social committee to be a part of the past 3 years. And my involvement with the committee all started with one of these mixers!

I think I do too!

Not me whispering under my breath to see if I already say it like this.

Yay! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. See you in Seattle!!

Purdue Linguistics Symposium abstract deadline is extended until Feb 14! Purdue campus is beautiful in April! Please join us.

Sharing the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Linguistics account, in case folks want to give it a follow.

bsky.app/profile/uiuc...