🚀 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

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

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

#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

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.

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%).

#linguistics Come on humans, be better. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Walked by an Intro to #Pragmatics course assignment today. #linguistics #langsky

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

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)

#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

#linguistics #langsky

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. 🤔

I beg to differ, NYT! #linguistics #langsky 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...

“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...

K this wins today! And maybe the whole week. 🐦🐦

Evidence for the structural cohesiveness of phrasal verbs? Also prosody in the wild. #linguistics #langsky

I think my Canadian Shift is showing. #linguistics #langsky

Now that bluesky is booming, I'm going to repost my study on TikTok language! If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #linguistics #langsky #tiktok #internetstudies #anthropology

“Sperm whale phonetic alphabet” ….so, as designed by the International (Waters) Phonetic Association?? Also, didn’t we always assume whales wrote logographicly? #linguistics www.bbc.com/future/artic...

1) Very cool; 2) Your accent has nothing to do with the physiology of your larynx, no reason why it would change! 🐦🐦

#linguistics #langsky www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

#linguistics Big up CB Gaelic!! www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7245666

Please enjoy this (outdated, but still good) list of films relating to or featuring language/linguistics 🐦🐦 linguistlist.org/issues/16/16...

An excellent example of the tension between economy and markedness that non-linguists often fail to understand. #linguistics #langsky www.zdnet.com/article/basi...

#langsky #linguistics theconversation.com/no-more-bad-...

#linguistics #langsky news.sky.com/story/pilloc...

#linguistics www.bbc.com/future/artic...

We are very happy to host Dr Matt Hunt Gardner in Helsinki this week to hear about his fascinating work on pulmonic ingressive YUP. Fortunately he made it here, even after after I typed his name wrong on his airline booking. Hope you’ll be able to leave, @matthuntgardner.bsky.social 😘

Hi there! Are you a graduate student in sociolinguistics who is an LSA member and wants travel funding to attend LSA's Annual Meeting in Philly this year? Consider applying for the Elizabeth Dayton Award! Open now til July 12! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...

Tadaaaaaaa!!! In #OpenAccess soon!

ooh the call for papers / website for NWAV 2024 is up! Miami, Nov 7-9, abstracts due June 28 #linguistics www.nwavmiami.org

The #ISLEForum "Linguistics versus AI?" by Gerold Schneider & Irina Nikishina is now available as recording on the #ISLE YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyUX...

As a huge #Nerd, I found this article incredibly fascinating. Prof. Christine Mooshammer conducted a study on people's perceptions of #ConstructedLanguages & the results are quite surprising. Read more: tinyurl.com/34cx6spd #LangSky #CongLang

#linguistics Hey morpho-syntax ppl! What's the proper label for these dialectal NON-causative stative present tense constructions? 🤔 I can't talk right now, because.... - I have/got dinner on the table. - I have/got dinner served. - I have/got dinner ready. - I have/got dinner waiting.

#linguistics #langsky Things that keep me awake at night.

my only kate middleton theory is that she’s been secretly filming the next season of Traitors

The Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts announced that people who have lost or damaged a book can bring a picture of a cat this month to one of its branches and get their library cards reactivated. The program, which it calls March Meowness, has generated hundreds of returns.

Exciting news about a new Canadian English Dictionary in progress! blog.editors.ca/a-new-canadi... (Canada hasn't had an updated national dictionary since The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition was published 20 years ago)

For my thesis, I've had to write a lot of corpus analysis code, and I've compiled it together into a suite of tools for quantitatively analyzing corpora. This was a labor of love! I hope you all find something useful in it. github.com/jhnwnstd/cor...

Just came across this one: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTL1pG8Af/