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Darin Flynn
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assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary.bsky.social
Expletive infixation is favoured between stress feet, e.g. “Bànglă-f*-désh”, “hò-f*-tél”, but not “Quĕ-f*-béc”. The surrounding feet may be in different prosodic words, e.g. “Shàngrĭ-f*-Lá”, but this one is new to me: the first foot critically straddles two words in “Gòd fŏr-f*-bíd!”
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Cool: comparative inflection of a trisyllabic stem
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
To -er is human

“I have my thankers to back”
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM