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Linguistics PhD candidate @ Stanford. syntax + interpretation. she-her.

world of evaluation
Joined January 2020
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I'm really excited to share with you all my first ever publication, which appears in Glossa! The paper is on Why-VP clauses as in: Why (not) scroll on twitter all day? 😏 glossa-journal.org/articles/…
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Catch me at GLOW47 discussing Negative Concord—because apparently, saying no once just isn’t enough. glowlinguistics.org/47/progr…
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Excited for WCCFL 42 🤩
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Dakota Johnson weighs in on fieldwork methodology: "isn't every sentence out of context out of context?"
THANK GOD FOR NEPOTISM i scream every time Dakota Johnson opens her mouth
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NYU A&S linguist @champoll was called for semantics expertise in a Supreme Court deportation case. He led a team from @Stanford and @ucdavis reviewing an immigration statute where the words “not” and “or” combine for “a textbook case of ambiguity.” as.nyu.edu/nyu-as/as/feature…
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Good things about being a linguist: knowing some things about language Bad things about being a linguist: talking to non-linguists who think they know things about language :/
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Someone recently offered me their *linguistic* theory about why Japan and Germany allied in WWII ... their verbs both come at the end of the sentence 😰
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relevant as ever! esp when you consider the fact that topicalization creates islands 🏝️
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proud of this one (@ w)
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hello! is anyone aware of syntacticians working in the language/education policy space?
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Does anyone know of any examples of pretty semantics posters ?? it feels kinda impossible.
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link.springer.com/article/10… Horn, Ladusaw, and Potts, among others, are cited in this marketing science article that says using negationS (I always though negation was more mass-noun-y) in brand messaging increase engagement (!!!) really funny to see non-linguists talk about this.
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i decided to take an internship this summer instead of summer funding from my program. i've still been able to submit abstracts and make small progress on research topics; without pressure to make A LOT of progress in a small amount of time, i feel like i'm thriving
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i feel like there's hope for a world in which i don't take an academic job post-PhD, but still get to engage with linguistics in ways that are meaningful to me, and i'm excited 🤩
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hey linguists, what does ‘word smart’ mean 🧐🧐🧐 wrong answers only
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more semantic bleaching: “gatekeeping”
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“ok this is week 7 of gatekeeping our money at the grocery store so we can have fun with our friends on the weekends”
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i love how bleached ‘sober’ is becoming
I’m Brooklyn sober (weed, natural wine, the occasional martini)
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we’re gonnna need to use reduplication to get back to the original meaning: ‘i’m sober sober’
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