Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now finally online! Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: https://t.co/XCsLeUl04g
"This is not your father's introduction to the philosophy of linguistics" - Geoff Pullum's new review of my 2024 advanced introduction to the subject:(https://t.co/BLNcIsrDSL) Of course, your father should still feel free to read it here https://t.co/qDtm8kyiWZ @CambUP_LangLing
Ray Jackendoff's work since the 1980s is absolutely amazing. One chapter of this new book is free to read for the next month. Highly recommended! https://t.co/0MDp5SUIML
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
https://t.co/ksQfTGoxpK
Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language by Harry van der Hulst
Places the 'nature/nurture debate' into a multidisciplinary context, showing how its key principles are applied to a range of fields.
📚 https://t.co/KRL2BjHZEo
Please, consider backing this syntax data-gathering project 'Is the independent relative pronoun "whose" syntactically impossible or just pragmatically constrained?' on @lets_experiment https://t.co/Bz3gbNQZFN
@phono_logical TMI (too much information) is a real problem. We just need to bit the bullet and agree that less is more, not more is better: (a) a bit of background, (b) your main discovery, (c) your main data, (c) conclusion.
Summer Schools: LOT Winter School 2026: Focus: The LOT schools offer a wide variety of courses. Description: The school offers a varied programme of 12 one-week courses (divided over two weeks) that are open to PhD canddiates across the world. The… https://t.co/o68tloG8ad
Out now! Roberts’s Continuing Syntax | A thorough exposition of hierarchy and locality, Continuing Syntax covers all the main components of contemporary syntactic theory.
Find out more: ☑️ https://t.co/vIi51NTr21
The only part of "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" that is actually meaningless is "colorless green". Everything else is interpretable. I'll die on this hill
Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context by Rui P. Chaves, Paul Kay and Laura A. Michaelis Free access available until 20 August.
https://t.co/r5xH5l9bZW
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Thread: 1/8🧵 New paper out! "Prepositions in (English) Dictionaries"
Ever notice how dictionaries define prepositions as words that "must take noun phrase complements" — but then give examples like "from here" and "before long" where the complements aren't nouns at all? 🤔