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I like languages and figuring out ways to describe and compare them. I also like spicy food, cats, and construction grammar. Don’t / won’t post much. Probably. He/him
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November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026
Does anyone have a good way to add meaningful alt text for syntactic trees, phylogenetic trees, and typological maps (like those on WALS)? 🐦🐦
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Does anyone have a good way to add meaningful alt text for syntactic trees, phylogenetic trees, and typological maps (like those on WALS)? 🐦🐦
The citizen app in Phoenix-Tempe keeps producing the gold standard of syntactic ambiguity: from “police in pursuit of pickup truck with three wheels” to “report of man with gun inside bag making threats”. I’m sad I’m not teaching syntax this year.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The citizen app in Phoenix-Tempe keeps producing the gold standard of syntactic ambiguity: from “police in pursuit of pickup truck with three wheels” to “report of man with gun inside bag making threats”. I’m sad I’m not teaching syntax this year.
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UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
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📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
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📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
This was my first time at an lsa summer institute. It was a lot of fun. Will go again
Term 1 came to a close yesterday, and we had to say goodbye to some wonderful folks 🥲
Here are some snapshots from Term 1–only classes!
🧠 Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition – Nick C. Ellis
🎙️ Language Production in the Lab and in the Wild – @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social
Here are some snapshots from Term 1–only classes!
🧠 Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition – Nick C. Ellis
🎙️ Language Production in the Lab and in the Wild – @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This was my first time at an lsa summer institute. It was a lot of fun. Will go again
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The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027
We’re interviewing instructors and attendees at the LSA Summer Institute! 🥹
Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1.
(more in the thread!)
#LSA2025 #Linguistics
Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1.
(more in the thread!)
#LSA2025 #Linguistics
July 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027
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Snapshots from the LSA 2025 Summer Institute!
Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨
🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth
🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social
🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank
Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨
🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth
🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social
🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank
July 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Snapshots from the LSA 2025 Summer Institute!
Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨
🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth
🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social
🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank
Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨
🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth
🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social
🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank
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Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it!
📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon
📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon
May 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it!
📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon
📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon
With more than a week to spare, I finished stats and plots for a talk in the trans alpine typology thing next week. It’s the first Tibeto-Burman languages talk I’m on.The main author is giving the talk, which explains the week to spare part…
June 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
With more than a week to spare, I finished stats and plots for a talk in the trans alpine typology thing next week. It’s the first Tibeto-Burman languages talk I’m on.The main author is giving the talk, which explains the week to spare part…
Any one knows of and wants to recommend good LATEX 94 Overleaf intros / tutorials specifically for linguists? I learned by trial and too many errors, but it doesn’t have to be that way
May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Any one knows of and wants to recommend good LATEX 94 Overleaf intros / tutorials specifically for linguists? I learned by trial and too many errors, but it doesn’t have to be that way
It’s a cool museum, on a cool campus, where a cool institute will be held. It is also in a cool city in a beautiful, often cool, area of the world.
You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.
You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.
While you're soaking in the knowledge at the LSA Summer Institute, take a break and step into a world of creativity at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art!
Located right on the UO campus, this museum is a hidden gem.
#JordanSchnitzerMuseum #lsasummerinstitute2025
Located right on the UO campus, this museum is a hidden gem.
#JordanSchnitzerMuseum #lsasummerinstitute2025
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It’s a cool museum, on a cool campus, where a cool institute will be held. It is also in a cool city in a beautiful, often cool, area of the world.
You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.
You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.
I’m trying to come up with a pun for a paper title and nothing really sticks and I am frustrated
March 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m trying to come up with a pun for a paper title and nothing really sticks and I am frustrated
I filled it up (I think) and so should you
📣 We still need participants for our survey! 📣
Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
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Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
bit.ly/teachling
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February 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I filled it up (I think) and so should you
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📣 We still need participants for our survey! 📣
Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
bit.ly/teachling
Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
bit.ly/teachling
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February 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
📣 We still need participants for our survey! 📣
Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
bit.ly/teachling
Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!
We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
bit.ly/teachling
My usage? Based!
My puppy? Skinny.
My addiction? Jane's.
February 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
My usage? Based!
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🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦
I’ll be there, at least for the first half, and it will be fun
🐦🐦 🚨 Come spend a month in lovely Oregon this summer, while learning cool linguistics stuff at the #LSAInstitute2025. The theme this year is "Language in Use" (my fav topic). I'm co-teaching an intro course on the linguistics of signed languages with @ryanlepic.bsky.social. Love to see you there!
February 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ll be there, at least for the first half, and it will be fun
SSILA this year was both online and fun
January 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
SSILA this year was both online and fun
I am biased about this paper. It was fun to work on and write, at least for me (not sure about Becky).
First #Constructions paper in 2025: "ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study" by Shahar Shirtz & Rebecca Paterson doi.org/10.24338/con...
ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study
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January 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am biased about this paper. It was fun to work on and write, at least for me (not sure about Becky).
I’m co-organizing this. It will be fun. Let me know if you want to participate!
Calls: Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages: Meeting Description:
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Sprachbund is large, spanning from parts of Alaska and British Columbia, to Northern California, and as far east as portions of Montana. The similarities of the languages were observed by…
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Sprachbund is large, spanning from parts of Alaska and British Columbia, to Northern California, and as far east as portions of Montana. The similarities of the languages were observed by…
Calls: Symposium on Northwest American Indigenous Languages
Meeting Description:
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Sprachbund is large, spanning from parts of Alaska and British Columbia, to Northern California, and as far east as portions of Montana. The similarities of the languages were observed by both Sapir, and…
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January 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I’m co-organizing this. It will be fun. Let me know if you want to participate!
While I think that obsessing over minor patterns in any language is good and worthy (plus, it’s one of my favorite things to do), this is a smart advice for everyone to follow, even if we think we understand cross-linguistic diversity
Pike perhaps.
But honestly I always think that linguists just need to read more fieldwork by whoever. Pick a new language family each week. Lack of knowledge of diversity keeps everyone obsessing over minor patterns in English as if they were the most important thing.
But honestly I always think that linguists just need to read more fieldwork by whoever. Pick a new language family each week. Lack of knowledge of diversity keeps everyone obsessing over minor patterns in English as if they were the most important thing.
January 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
While I think that obsessing over minor patterns in any language is good and worthy (plus, it’s one of my favorite things to do), this is a smart advice for everyone to follow, even if we think we understand cross-linguistic diversity
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One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread.
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December 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
One thing that has stuck with me from my reading this fall is a point that Jeff Mielke makes in his 2008 book: "linguists often confuse their shared assumptions with linguistic universals." Since I care about features, I thought I should read Jeff's book in more detail. A thread.
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#linguistics
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Can’t say how many times I’ve read Labov and Waletzky 1967, but I’ll read it again tomorrow. What a blessing.
December 18, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Can’t say how many times I’ve read Labov and Waletzky 1967, but I’ll read it again tomorrow. What a blessing.
I learned a lot by going to the university’s subreddit. I encourage everyone to periodically check what’s up there. It’s also really funny at times, which is nice.
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I learned a lot by going to the university’s subreddit. I encourage everyone to periodically check what’s up there. It’s also really funny at times, which is nice.