Dr. JD
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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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Inversion in Russian, Smuggling, and Leapfrogging - lingbuzz/009494
Russian is a canonically-SVO language with relatively free word order (Bailyn 1995). As others have shown, OVS word orders for transitive clauses involve A-movement of the preverbal object (Bailyn 200...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New squib with @christcollins.bsky.social about A-movement in OVS inverted clauses in Russian in which we contrast smuggling vs leapfrogging analyses!
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
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...
Quotative inversion as smuggling: Evidence from Setswana and English - lingbuzz/009441
Quotative inversion (QI) clauses in Setswana and English – two SVO languages – show a marked OVS word order in which a quote canonically appears preverbally and the agentive external argument appears ...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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...
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
October 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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
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Linguists will really say "the forbidden experiment" like people aren't performing it on the majority of deaf children in this country every day 💀
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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”
“This house looks like they tore it down”
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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”
“This house looks like they tore it down”
New manuscript available on Lingbuzz! Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses - lingbuzz/009223
This paper offers a novel framework for understanding agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses involving the verb haber. In these existential sentences, though the prescripti...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
New manuscript available on Lingbuzz! Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
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
Glossa paper: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
JLCL paper: doi.org/10.21248/jlc...
And more to come!! #worldemojiday
doi.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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 :/
July 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
scholarly books are so expensive these days :/
this just in: water, carrot, and salad are polymorphemic (brought to you by google AI)
July 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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...
Pictorial constituents & the metalinguistic performance of LLMs
| Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics
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July 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy to announce that a paper of mine has recently appeared in the Journal for Language Technology & Computational Linguistics! jlcl.org/article/view...
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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.
This. It's like how Southerners used to transcribe Oasis as saying "fookin'". No. They said "fuckin'". Southerners say "fahrkin".
Wet blanket here. These stupid things never fucking work because *obviously* people in Manchester already read Aldi as Aldeh. They'll read Aldeh as a different word. You London-centric pricks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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.
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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.
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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” 💯
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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...
Projecting (your) voice: A theory of inversion and defective circumvention - lingbuzz/009032
This doctoral dissertation revolves around colloquial agreement alternations in many constructions in several languages involving postverbal thematic subjects. These alternations are productive and we...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have filed revisions for my doctoral dissertation! You can read it here: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
passed dissertation defense!!!
May 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
passed dissertation defense!!!
dissertation defense in two days! although i’m more excited than anything, i will be accepting any advice, encouragement, thoughts, and/or prayers!
May 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
dissertation defense in two days! although i’m more excited than anything, i will be accepting any advice, encouragement, thoughts, and/or prayers!
Pidgin and Creole would be good names for two cats adopted by a linguist
April 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Pidgin and Creole would be good names for two cats adopted by a linguist
As a response to the question “Have you been studying?”, I and (I believe) most English speakers would say the following:
1. “I have”
My husband and other speakers in his family only accept this, though:
2. “I’ve been”
This is so strange to me. Does anyone else prefer the second one?
1. “I have”
My husband and other speakers in his family only accept this, though:
2. “I’ve been”
This is so strange to me. Does anyone else prefer the second one?
April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
As a response to the question “Have you been studying?”, I and (I believe) most English speakers would say the following:
1. “I have”
My husband and other speakers in his family only accept this, though:
2. “I’ve been”
This is so strange to me. Does anyone else prefer the second one?
1. “I have”
My husband and other speakers in his family only accept this, though:
2. “I’ve been”
This is so strange to me. Does anyone else prefer the second one?
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The question everyone is now asking
"Has Montague Grammar finally met its Capulet?"
April 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The question everyone is now asking
inspired by a discussion on here earlier today, i have arrived at the generalization that Spanish speakers only like the (b) representation of the word “quesadilla”
a) 🧀adilla
b) 🧀dilla
c) 🧀illa
this, of course, tells us extremely interesting things about the morphological structure of Spanish
a) 🧀adilla
b) 🧀dilla
c) 🧀illa
this, of course, tells us extremely interesting things about the morphological structure of Spanish
April 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
inspired by a discussion on here earlier today, i have arrived at the generalization that Spanish speakers only like the (b) representation of the word “quesadilla”
a) 🧀adilla
b) 🧀dilla
c) 🧀illa
this, of course, tells us extremely interesting things about the morphological structure of Spanish
a) 🧀adilla
b) 🧀dilla
c) 🧀illa
this, of course, tells us extremely interesting things about the morphological structure of Spanish