Larry Zhou

Graduate at Beijing Normal University. Syntax (HPSG/SBCG) | Syntactic Theories | Semantics. Be open minded! he/him

[Chris Collins @ChrisTCollins]

Basic Skills in Syntax (Part 1): Working with Data. Comments welcome!
https://t.co/NbmGkdmi5N

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

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

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

37 years ago, as a beginning PhD student, I happened to be present when the "Cognitive Linguistics" movement was born. https://t.co/oVXc5eLOFx

[Chris Collins @ChrisTCollins]

Being a Syntactican (Some Preliminary Posts) https://t.co/2N2OV5gGJi

[Ryan.M.Nefdt @ryan_nefdt]

"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

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

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

[Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT @LanguageMIT]

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

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

"Language Evolution and Genetics"
👆My contribution to the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition
https://t.co/G5He3Qbw0Y

[Christopher Potts @ChrisGPotts]

Claude drew this baby for a friend of mine. Claude, have you ever even seen a baby?

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

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

[Distending the grammatical Overton window🏴‍☠️ @brettrey3]

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

[Chris Collins @ChrisTCollins]

@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.

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

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

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

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

[Chris Collins @ChrisTCollins]

Proposal: The Noam Chomsky Award https://t.co/QQKV6F3vmG

[Darin Flynn @phono_logical]

“List of linguistic example sentences” — actual Wikipedia page: https://t.co/orJ1BVxq01

[Chris Collins @ChrisTCollins]

Blog Squibs. Comments welcome! https://t.co/6xxJvjSgTV

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

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

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

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
#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

[Distending the grammatical Overton window🏴‍☠️ @brettrey3]

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? 🤔