Lizzie Coppock
lizzieloo.bsky.social
Lizzie Coppock
@lizzieloo.bsky.social
Semanticist, linguist, Associate Professor at Boston University, nothing more, not obsessed with lindy hop or anything fun like that
Family protest time in Evanston IL #nokingsday
October 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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.
eecoppock.info/bootcamp/sem...
August 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
July 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
New blog post: decoding the first line of a traditional Newari counting riddle. Punchline in the image.
sites.bu.edu/lislab/2025/...

Watch Nepal Bhasa language activist Sunita Junu and her daughter recite this beautiful call-and-response text:
www.tiktok.com/@sunita.junu...
July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here’s Gurung
June 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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)
June 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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.
June 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Boston protest pictures — yes let’s get creative!!!
April 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Here’s another one
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Working on protest sign ideas
April 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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.
January 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Got the flu, invited Mr. Mouse to sit in on my lecture on semantic relations. He did great.
January 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Biggest thieves of the century rounding people up and putting them in prison for shoplifting
January 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our paper is out!

Helena Aparicio and I were fresh-faced and innocent when we first started this project back in 2017:
escholarship.org/uc/item/87v9...

Title: Beware of referential garden paths! The dangerous allure of semantic parses that succeed locally but globally fail
January 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"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!

eecoppock.info/ac2024-ho-co...
January 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM