Constituent types (phrase, head, clause?) phrase types (NP, VP?) head complement specifier? Sisterhood.
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Constituent types (phrase, head, clause?) phrase types (NP, VP?) head complement specifier? Sisterhood.
I made a midterm Jeopardy board for my English Words students and got them donuts. We had fun. (YMMV, of course; it's a bit specific to the course content we've discussed so far and some of my idiosyncratic terminology choices.)
jeopardylabs.com/play/advance...
In my first cover letters for jobs I applied for a position in lingusitics
Dang it this is too good
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
Me too
That’s the goal!
Miyazaki invented these guys right?
Sweater with design based on different levels of linguistic representation: lambda notation, syntactic hierarchical structure, prosodic structure, and waveforms.
Oo!! I need to participate!! I’m knitting a colorwork sweater that is basically designed with just you two in mind. I was going to finish it in time for the LSA in NOLA but ran out of time. But it just needs sleeves, weaving in and blocking!
It’s like bananas, a commonly accepted American unit of measurement
I think I say it that way for reals at least some of the time!!
“Minimalist generative syntax” or just “minimalist syntax”?
![Letter from Bach to Epstein interleaved with answers to comments; sample comment “their [Black] brains are slower at learning high-level concepts”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3prnzyijb6pcu5euifrdqttg/bafkreihmlv5vdf5qvleunfkravf2gemq4bqkjcxt6zxrsqko7oexr2zm2a@jpeg)
Letter from Bach to Epstein interleaved with answers to comments; sample comment “their [Black] brains are slower at learning high-level concepts”
Letter from Bach to Epstein interleaved with answers to comments; sample comment “women tend to find abstract systems, conflict and mechanisms intrinsically boring”
Do NOT leave out Joscha Bach
cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
Sometimes everything depends on
the kindness of one stranger from Colorado
in the most tricked-out Jeep you ever saw.
Met with one of my international doctoral students today, close to finishing a really interesting dissertation, and they have decided not to apply to any academic positions inside the US after finishing. Not unexpected, just a sad reflection of our national self-sabotage.
Set up first phone for 12yo about to be 13. Felt like a big moment. 🥺
A ruined concrete building with “The weakest link is the master!!” written on it. Roosevelt the burned teddy bear is in the picture.
The northeast side of Roosevelt’s whole building
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear lying on a slab with “Make America Great Again” written in white spray paint. The letters “ke”, “erica” and “great” have been sprayed over in a brighter white.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear in a doorway with “Ultra MAGA” written above it
A purple rose image with the word NEXUS beside it, which must have taken a lot of time to execute
Roosevelt sits on a windowsill. On the wall below him a lavender graffito reads “Fuck capitalism”. The letters “ap” have been graffitied over in green paint. Something else ending in MP had also been added in lighter blue above that part of the word “capitalism”.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear sits below a blue graffito reading “2025 — fascism comes to America” The words “fascism” and “comes” have been covered by green spray paint.
Roosevelt the burned teddy bear sits below a graffitied wall reading “Fuck Marxists”
A derelict concrete wall with an ugly green face spray painted on it. It has been overwritten with “RIP Charley Kirk”. Roosevelt is sitting on the wall above.
Roosevelt the bear sitting on a concrete slap with ruined concrete walls behind him. Graffiti underneath him reads “Be your own master and we shall see.”
Here he is in his derelict home. The graffiti under him reads “Be your own master and we shall see.”
A cream-colored teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater. He has been in a fire and is singed light brown and his fur and sweater are partly melted.
Driving north through the desert in Nevada we stopped to pee and explore a ghost town and found a microcosm of American culture wars playing out in an abandoned cement factory building. I took some photos. The star: a charred teddy bear wearing an American flag sweater we named Roosevelt.
Laughed out loud