pia massaro🫒

Apulian person, mediterronea. Morphology, syntax @unisiena.
زبان شناس
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally. Academic proletariat.
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[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Come read our newest paper on embedded verb second in a group of minority languages from Northern Italy, just published on Isogloss!
https://t.co/fp3UgmfRUt

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire https://t.co/Xllvm0V1Ip

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 48), University of Siena, 21-23/4/2026 (deadline Dec 2). https://t.co/InGoQS72CL
Satellite workshop “Less documented languages in formal linguistics”, University of Florence 20/4/2026 (deadline Dec 2). https://t.co/QjLOXi2H5K

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

@lilsnowyflake Sistema distribuzione gatti in azione

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Nooo ma quindi la Zakharova è una coatta, pensa te che sorpresa /s

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

@timothyhenryr Perhaps it wasn't transcribed or the root of the verb can be inferred contextually (like there was pointing or looking at something)?

[Timothy Henry-Rodriguez @timothyhenryr]

Help me out linguistics Twitter: do you know of a language where the verbal root in a predicate can be left out while the verbal inflection remains? I seem to remember Comrie talking about this back when I was a student, and now I wish I'd paid more attention.

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

@thomas_wier @timothyhenryr If I understand this correctly this is like when in English you have
- did he write
- he did
Granted, 'did' is not inflection but it's there to carry the past feature

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Still trying to remove bloodstains with influencer pictures I see. That's not gonna happen

[Debra Lea @thedebralea]

The only country in the Middle East I won’t get arrested for this outfit 🤪 🤍🇮🇱

[“paula” @paularambles]

only an italian could look at a radiator and think “this would hold sauce well” and be correct

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Segnalami Gasparri

[Domani @DomaniGiornale]

Arriva il ddl anti pro Pal: vietato criticare il governo di Netanyahu nelle scuole e nelle università https://t.co/blEKUxtjs4

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

You can bet all of your belongings on Southern Italians being there for those who struggle

[Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 @Palestine001_]

Two Italian girls in Naples, southern Italy, cheered pro-Palestine protesters from their window, chanting "Free Palestine." They didn't have a Palestinian flag... then suddenly they saw what was happening.

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

E se usi Twitter te ne accorgi all' istante

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

A new document reveals the Israeli government is paying a cohort of 14-18 social media influencers between $6,100 and $7,300 per post

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Fa più rumore un post sulla datazione delle università che sui fondi che ricevono.

Estetica

[Sabina @SabinaCusin]

Ministro dell'università

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

@AzzurraBarbuto Ma voleva sembrare un post intelligente questo?

[Massimo D'Antoni @maxdantoni]

Chi continua a dire che la guerra a Gaza finirebbe se solo venissero rilasciati gli ostaggi o non ci ha capito nulla o è in malafede

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

I don't know... I had to learn on my own how to budget 1.5 mln€ for a grant proposal (I'm a linguist), every software you can imagine, navigate national and European laws, languages, teach, travel, I doubt I couldn't handle a corporate job, perhaps industry is just blind

[Mel Andrews @bayesianboy]

Chasing an academic career is optimizing for the narrowest imaginable market that is liable to simply implode at any given time and has no transferable skills or accolades.

[pia massaro🫒 @syncretic_]

Not gonna lie I thought it was Wittgenstein 🤣

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Robert De Niro with his father (1946)

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Embarrassing the Israeli president