Type Logical Semantics? Well, yeah, I like to think of myself as a logical type of semanticist

glad to be done with work and finally have some free time to work

I had a dream that I attended a lecture about linear logics that made me understand them but I woke up and now I'm back to not understanding

Is it bad or is it just funny to submit to a syntax conference citing nothing written after 2000 (I swear i'm not *that* out of touch)

does anyone know anything about the syntax of british english "do you want your car cleaning?" i have some takes but couldn't find previous literature

decades of cyberpunk fiction, and I don't believe a single writer fully predicted how embarrassingly stupid so much of AI was going to be

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

absence makes the sartre go ponder

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

This is good advice for readers. But also, academics, put up a website! Put drafts of papers as submitted on it! If you don't feel like doing that, at least post drafts to PhilPapers, or SSRN, or arXiv, or somewhere. You're getting paid to provide a public good, not support commercial publishers.

joining the linguistic wars on the side of linguistics

New bit Eric and I wrote up on superficial versus deep theories, a topic that's become an interest of both of ours. Potentially of particular interest to @quiltydunn.bsky.social @ericman.bsky.social @devinsanchezcurry.com @jplennon630.bsky.social

WCCFL may have left me feeling, for the first time in my life, syntaxed out

chomsky (1995 et seq)

Wow I got out ahead of the Philosophy Twitter exodus and now everyone I used to know is here :D

Never really jived with BlueSky when I was last on here because it was a bit more LinkedIn-esque, let's say, than the soapboxing-at-the-bar-in-the-middle-of-a-conference vibe Ling Twitter had when it was at its best. Has that changed over the last year?

Logging in for the first time in a year to say I'll be at WCCFL in Seattle! Come say hi

Why is overt Ā-movement of a silent operator like overt Ā-movement of a pronounced lexical item, and not like covert Ā-movement of a pronounced lexical item? It could have been different. I feel like the answer we give tells us a lot about how to think of PF and the overt/covert distinction.

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Me when an article is printed in a two column format: 😤🤢🤮 Me setting a one column paper to display in spreads: 🥰😍☺️

Yes I like antisymmetry I just choose to not be weird about it

Should I get into writing my name as <Malhār>

Threw a 3-page speculative note about vehicle change and movement-based binding (à la Lidz & Idsardi 1998; Hornstein 2001, i.a.) onto lingbuzz: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

me: I love your socks! her: Thanks! They came in a pair, and the other pair was pink... me: *disassociates in semanticist*

Anyone know of a language that allows subjectless sentences but only allows anaphors in object position when the subject is overt?

This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summe

Who's all gonna be at FASAL? Heading up there tomorrow! Come say hi at the poster session :)

First actual paper on the Mereological Syntax stuff: how to get successive cyclicity without phases - plus some cool Gaelic data. Book revisions still underway ... lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007... #linguistics

Any Dutch speakers willing to give me some judgments?

I think if I had my way, selectional features would be the first thing to go. If I want to do split v/VPs, suddenly I need two T_past heads, one to select vPs and one to select VPs? No thanks. There has to be a better way than this

Guy who believes Diderot's thing that some languages mirror the order of thought but thinks it's any VSO language because it follows first-order logic notation like Kicked(John, the ball)

8 countries! I forgot Vatican City!

Teaching this next week, but here's "synTeX": LaTeX for syntax! Goes over glossed examples and trees. I wanted to show stuff I hadn't seen in other intros like easy ways to do multidominance and spanning using the forest package. (Grateful for typo spotters, suggestions welcome!) bit.ly/3vrWlU0

Had to remember a bunch of python because I redesigned the code for an experiment recently. Feeling a little like someone with a real job

when you lie by failing to cancel your scalar implicatures

🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...

2022-2023 - did 1st year of PhD program - submitted 1st abstract - made it into Year 2 of a long distance relationship - ran some 10Ks - lost ability to run 10K - ran a D&D campaign for 4 months and counting - finally made a decent Cosmopolitan - hosted my first cocktail party - visited 7 countries

Gonna start talking about theoretical developments like music critics talk; “In this paper, there's the wit we've come to expect from their oeuvre, still one of the biggest players in the Distributed Morphology scene” and such

Cheers to my Secret Santa

I am now 23 which means there is no longer a Taylor Swift song about my age :(

This holiday season, treat yourself to a new functional projection or two

The biggest symptom of syntactician brain I have is just saying “can you just put this in a table?” whenever I see a bunch of data

My search history: long distance re{lationship/flexives in Mandarin}

Does Iceland's exports data include data for syntacticians?

Doing science

There was no #linguistics feed when I posted this a while back, and now there is, so am reposting in case the new crop of bsky syntacticians are interested!

Multiple wh-movement? Sure, but you can't do any of it covertly. Sluicing? Fine. Multiple sluicing? Nope.

The Hindi A-bar system is one of the most bizarro things I have ever seen. Things that should happen aren't happening. Things that shouldn't happen are happening. All of it is terrifying