Matt Hunt Gardner (he/him)
@matthuntgardner.bsky.social
Sociolinguist, nerd, cook 🏳️🌈
Lecturer QMUL, Visiting Scholar Oxford
Lecturer QMUL, Visiting Scholar Oxford
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🚀 New Article!
@luciafrai.bsky.social @celesterl.bsky.social @matthuntgardner.bsky.social, Glenys D Collard and James Walker examine social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English. What are the meanings associated with different realisations of (ING)?
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@luciafrai.bsky.social @celesterl.bsky.social @matthuntgardner.bsky.social, Glenys D Collard and James Walker examine social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English. What are the meanings associated with different realisations of (ING)?
Find out 🔗 buff.ly/uaG8VoH
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🚀 New Article!
@luciafrai.bsky.social @celesterl.bsky.social @matthuntgardner.bsky.social, Glenys D Collard and James Walker examine social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English. What are the meanings associated with different realisations of (ING)?
Find out 🔗 buff.ly/uaG8VoH
@luciafrai.bsky.social @celesterl.bsky.social @matthuntgardner.bsky.social, Glenys D Collard and James Walker examine social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English. What are the meanings associated with different realisations of (ING)?
Find out 🔗 buff.ly/uaG8VoH
So happy this article with the fabulous @luciafrai.bsky.social (and others) is now published: Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School doi.org/10.1111/josl...
Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School
This original sociolinguistic ethnographic study examines social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English, an indigenized variety of English spoken by First Nations people in Australia. Ba...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
So happy this article with the fabulous @luciafrai.bsky.social (and others) is now published: Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School doi.org/10.1111/josl...
New article alert: doi.org/10.1111/lnc3... Looking at a classic variable with a new-ish tool. Part 2 coming soon. #linguistics #langsky #Maritimes
A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Linear Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 1, Social Factors
This two-part guide/research report introduces the Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis technique to variationist sociolinguistics using (ING) variation in Canadian Maritime English (C...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New article alert: doi.org/10.1111/lnc3... Looking at a classic variable with a new-ish tool. Part 2 coming soon. #linguistics #langsky #Maritimes
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Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan @caitlinhogan.bsky.social explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan @caitlinhogan.bsky.social explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. doi.org/10.1177/2056...
Ok, now it’s just too easy. Both “take” and “make” should have the same ending. Given context the subject should be thou, giving Takest not Taketh. If Taketh’s subject is an unstated he/she/it/one (which prompts -eth ending) then make should be maketh or makes. #linguistics
March 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ok, now it’s just too easy. Both “take” and “make” should have the same ending. Given context the subject should be thou, giving Takest not Taketh. If Taketh’s subject is an unstated he/she/it/one (which prompts -eth ending) then make should be maketh or makes. #linguistics
#linguistics Great example of how comedy almost solely relies on subverting the tropes of class/regional representations of English in stories using language variation. youtu.be/rQDeU6dHX-c
Monty Python's Flying Circus - "Working Class Playwright"
YouTube video by karatelunchbox
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March 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#linguistics Great example of how comedy almost solely relies on subverting the tropes of class/regional representations of English in stories using language variation. youtu.be/rQDeU6dHX-c
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It's been delayed a little, but here — at last — is the CFP for Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, to support research "at the intersection of AI and the humanities." Expressions of interest are due April 4th. Pls RT! www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's been delayed a little, but here — at last — is the CFP for Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, to support research "at the intersection of AI and the humanities." Expressions of interest are due April 4th. Pls RT! www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Another bad borrowed prestige using grammatical forms. #linguistics Trad. grammars state (basically) "shall" for positive polarity, "will" for negative for 1PSig, and the reverse for other subjects. Thus "Though shalt not pass" is okay but "Thy XX shall awaken..." is technically an error.
March 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Another bad borrowed prestige using grammatical forms. #linguistics Trad. grammars state (basically) "shall" for positive polarity, "will" for negative for 1PSig, and the reverse for other subjects. Thus "Though shalt not pass" is okay but "Thy XX shall awaken..." is technically an error.
The use of “thou” was pretty much dead (outside Bible quotes) by the end of the 17th century. The use of “who” to introduce a restricted relative clause didn’t take off until the 19th century. Just saying. #linguistics
March 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The use of “thou” was pretty much dead (outside Bible quotes) by the end of the 17th century. The use of “who” to introduce a restricted relative clause didn’t take off until the 19th century. Just saying. #linguistics
#linguistics I have been hearing so much more "on accident" lately that I decided to check its presence across a bunch of English corpora. The variation between "on accident", "by accident", and "accidentally" is robust, but "on accident" is a relatively minor player (0%-10.7%).
March 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#linguistics I have been hearing so much more "on accident" lately that I decided to check its presence across a bunch of English corpora. The variation between "on accident", "by accident", and "accidentally" is robust, but "on accident" is a relatively minor player (0%-10.7%).
February 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Does anyone else feel some kind of conspiracy is brewing based on the unreasonably frequent appearance of “oboe” as a @nytimes.com crossword answer? I mean, somebody is communicating something to someone.
February 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Does anyone else feel some kind of conspiracy is brewing based on the unreasonably frequent appearance of “oboe” as a @nytimes.com crossword answer? I mean, somebody is communicating something to someone.
Best linguistic landscape find from Inverness County, Nova Scotia #acadie #linguistics #translanguaging
December 25, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Best linguistic landscape find from Inverness County, Nova Scotia #acadie #linguistics #translanguaging
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Only stumbled upon it for the first time today, but this one is now quite high in my list of favorite quotes! 😃
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Only stumbled upon it for the first time today, but this one is now quite high in my list of favorite quotes! 😃
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
#TFL has new names for the various Overground lines in London. The only one I can’t get behind is MildMay for purely prosodic reasons. Diphthong-Liquid-Voiced Stop-Nasal-Diphthong just doesn’t roll off that tongue easily. #linguistics #soheavy
December 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
#TFL has new names for the various Overground lines in London. The only one I can’t get behind is MildMay for purely prosodic reasons. Diphthong-Liquid-Voiced Stop-Nasal-Diphthong just doesn’t roll off that tongue easily. #linguistics #soheavy
Perhaps more diversity at National Express would have caught the unintended meaning here. Not sure if the missing exclamation point after
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
November 30, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Perhaps more diversity at National Express would have caught the unintended meaning here. Not sure if the missing exclamation point after
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
November 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Perhaps more diversity at National Express would have caught the unintended meaning here. Not sure if the missing exclamation point after
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
“Crackers” would have helped either. 🤔
I beg to differ, NYT! #linguistics #langsky
Ok, it’s an adjective based on the proper name of mountains but still.
Ok, it’s an adjective based on the proper name of mountains but still.
November 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I beg to differ, NYT! #linguistics #langsky
Ok, it’s an adjective based on the proper name of mountains but still.
Ok, it’s an adjective based on the proper name of mountains but still.
Forgot to add #linguistics
Talk about ambiguous antecedents!!!!! I had to read the article to parse this headline, which may have been the whole point of it.
people.com/oliver-hudso...
people.com/oliver-hudso...
November 28, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Forgot to add #linguistics
Talk about ambiguous antecedents!!!!! I had to read the article to parse this headline, which may have been the whole point of it.
people.com/oliver-hudso...
people.com/oliver-hudso...
November 28, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Talk about ambiguous antecedents!!!!! I had to read the article to parse this headline, which may have been the whole point of it.
people.com/oliver-hudso...
people.com/oliver-hudso...
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“Making Sense of Bad English” is such a fab resource for learning about and teaching language ideologies. I loved chatting with @lissu.bsky.social about what the Standard Language Ideology has to do with Santa Clause and why English spelling is so chaotic! www.languageonthemove.com/making-sense...
Making Sense of “Bad English”
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. This epis…
www.languageonthemove.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:55 AM
“Making Sense of Bad English” is such a fab resource for learning about and teaching language ideologies. I loved chatting with @lissu.bsky.social about what the Standard Language Ideology has to do with Santa Clause and why English spelling is so chaotic! www.languageonthemove.com/making-sense...
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K this wins today! And maybe the whole week. 🐦🐦
if busta rhymes was british he’d be called borcester rhymes
November 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM
K this wins today! And maybe the whole week. 🐦🐦
Evidence for the structural cohesiveness of phrasal verbs? Also prosody in the wild. #linguistics #langsky
November 17, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Evidence for the structural cohesiveness of phrasal verbs? Also prosody in the wild. #linguistics #langsky
I think my Canadian Shift is showing. #linguistics #langsky
November 16, 2024 at 1:16 AM
I think my Canadian Shift is showing. #linguistics #langsky