Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.

The cat’s out of the bag! New research on idioms reveals hidden messages behind the words. Check out the #psynomMC paper by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck irastamon.bsky.social. Post by @brettrmyers. buff.ly/otvD0qH

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New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

In other news (they came in threes), Nick Griffen and I have a paper that just came out providing some support for our Presuppositional Account of idioms. Here’s the link. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Just out: escholarship.org/uc/item/8fc3...

Two articles from our lab on discourse connectives (specifically “and”, “but” & “so”). Both papers form just part of Cecile Larralde’s dissertation that took place last November. The work shows, in detail, how such words, from the moment they appear, generate specific procedures among participants.

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New paper: Communication & grammar: A synthesis Now in press at Psychological Review (cc @apajournals.bsky.social) In which I describe how contextualist approaches to communication fit especially well with constructionist approaches to grammar osf.io/preprints/ps...

Looking for a motivated Masters Student to help us run a study on discourse connectives.

Paul Theroux describes nicely what it’s like to live abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

This represents some of the work on discourse connectives carried out by Cecile along with Morgan Moyer and myself. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Cecile Larralde will be defending her thesis today at 13:30 in Paris. Its title is “Experimental investigations into the procedural meaning of discourse connectives.” She’s the first PhD product of the GRISP lab (within a lab), which started when I moved to Paris (the Université Paris Cité).

First time visitor. Looks nice. I think I’ll come back.