Family protest time in Evanston IL #nokingsday

Semantics teachers! The Fall 2025 version of "Invitation to Formal Semantics" is now available. It has major changes to Chapters 1-5 driven by new exercises and visualization of cases. Solutions to exercises soon available upon request.
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New blog post: decoding the first line of a traditional Newari counting riddle. Punchline in the image.
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Watch Nepal Bhasa language activist Sunita Junu and her daughter recite this beautiful call-and-response text:
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Here’s Gurung

Languages of Nepal with beautiful scripts: (i) Nepal Bhasa, which has been written using Ranjana and other scripts of Nepal Lipi (along with the Hindi script Devanagari); (ii) Gurung, with a very round script. (Tim Brookes, Atlas of Endangered Alphabets)

How can we be detaining people whose asylum cases are pending??? Completely psychotic even if you think that people who enter illegally should be deported.

Boston protest pictures — yes let’s get creative!!!

Here’s another one

Working on protest sign ideas

Final board. Mr. Mouse was really curious about cases where there were no sailors, so we ended up introducing a third truth value on day 1.

Got the flu, invited Mr. Mouse to sit in on my lecture on semantic relations. He did great.

Biggest thieves of the century rounding people up and putting them in prison for shoplifting

Our paper is out!

Helena Aparicio and I were fresh-faced and innocent when we first started this project back in 2017:
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Title: Beware of referential garden paths! The dangerous allure of semantic parses that succeed locally but globally fail

"Hey Liz, can I actually email you for the slides, because I heard from a lot of people that your talk was amazing." -Person to me after my plenary at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024. Slides dropping right here!

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