Beccy Lewis

@uconn linguistics PhD student, working on (associative) plurals 👪 @cambridge_uni/@uniofyork, sheffield raised 🪴 give us a book rec 📚 she/her.

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

@HadasKotek @an_average_bear Similarly singular "us" in BrE (perhaps not quite what you're after, since we do also still have "me")

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

Does anyone have a copy of Perlmutter 1984, Studies in Relational Grammar vol 2? I can grab a copy at my library on Monday but it would be great if I could just get what I need over the weekend.

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

Elon Musk replying to a Russell Brand video about a Channel 4 documentary that'll air tomorrow probably about Brand being accused of sexual harassment (if not worse). "They don't like competition." My god.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@rustyrockets Of course. They don’t like competition.

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

the raspberry jam on the bottom 😭

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

just googled "cornflake dessert recipes" because we've got a box we'll never eat for breakfast in the cupboard and was hurtled back in time upon seeing this:

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I wonder if speakers for who "half six" is "half before six" can't comprehend how it would ever mean "half past six"

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I know deep down people in the US don't say this so they are confused when I do, but also my brain cannot comprehend their confusion (half six is so obviously not half TO six in my brain)

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

Everyone in ireland keeps saying “half six” or “half nine” or whatever and babe I have NO IDEA what time you mean!!! Sorry, love! Cheers and all that to yourself! But that could be any time to me!

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

at a Noah Kahan concert and just watched a girl Shazam 'I Know The End' by Pheobe Bridgers, she's about to have one hell of a fall

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I have just realized I've been playing this game on difficultly mode 3000 because I made up the rule that you can't repeat any letters, this shit is easy peasy if you can reuse letters!!

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

@DrBlinguist I have and it works well for me, I can try to help??

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

there are two breaking news prison escapees on my timeline and I don't know which is which

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

@neilalexanderw1 @ailourosmarjara Not even archaic English, right? I (BrE) could say "dinner" to mean lunch (though after moving to the US I do it less often), and schools still have "dinner ladies" (but that might be somewhat grammaticalized)

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

cannot tell you how homicidal it makes me when I click "access via your institution" on a paper, search for my institution, get sent to the log in page for my institution and enter my ID and password, complete 2FA to log in to my institution, only to be met with this:

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

Does anyone have a copy of Zwicky 1982 'An Expanded View of Morphology in the Syntax Phonology Interface'?

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I always think about this happening when I pass one of these

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Nine cars worth more than £1m were tipped over on the side of a dual carriageway in Kent after a transporter carrying the luxury vehicles overturned.

Read more: https://t.co/ojaq7Akles

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

My top thoughts:
- vertical mouse/better keyboard and mouse setup
- a smart notebook (e.g. Rocketbook)

that's really all I've got please help

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I got a Teaching Award this afternoon (🥳) that comes with a $50 prize. The catch: the department will purchase something worth $50 and it has to be work/research related.

Do you own something that's $50 or less that revolutionized the way you work?

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

google is irreparably broken

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

I've just spotted 2 mistakes right after submission, go me!

[Beccy Lewis @becc_ys]

The paper I presented at WCCFL this year finally exists! It's about a peculiar British English pronoun: singular 'us'. I present two empirical puzzles about sg 'us' and try to explain them w/ a feauturally underspecified clitic analysis. Comments welcome!

https://t.co/vjjdPZBEtG