Quantifiers could be associated with different algorithms/hyperintensions from person to person, even if they all agree on truth conditions. Are they, in fact, variant in that way? We find evidence for “no! Everyone represents them the same!” Preprint here: ssrn.com/abstract=719...

Doing my yearly check in to ask, “is this website funny yet” Initial reports more promising than earlier tests

Type Logical Semantics? Well, yeah, I like to think of myself as a logical type of semanticist

glad to be done with work and finally have some free time to work

I had a dream that I attended a lecture about linear logics that made me understand them but I woke up and now I'm back to not understanding

Is it bad or is it just funny to submit to a syntax conference citing nothing written after 2000 (I swear i'm not *that* out of touch)

does anyone know anything about the syntax of british english "do you want your car cleaning?" i have some takes but couldn't find previous literature

The cover of every OUP volume collecting Davidson's papers be like

decades of cyberpunk fiction, and I don't believe a single writer fully predicted how embarrassingly stupid so much of AI was going to be

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

Polysemy and Philosophy

Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....

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RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

John R. Ross - Wikipedia

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absence makes the sartre go ponder

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

This is good advice for readers. But also, academics, put up a website! Put drafts of papers as submitted on it! If you don't feel like doing that, at least post drafts to PhilPapers, or SSRN, or arXiv, or somewhere. You're getting paid to provide a public good, not support commercial publishers.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · last yr.

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

joining the linguistic wars on the side of linguistics

New bit Eric and I wrote up on superficial versus deep theories, a topic that's become an interest of both of ours. Potentially of particular interest to @quiltydunn.bsky.social @ericman.bsky.social @devinsanchezcurry.com @jplennon630.bsky.social

Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · last yr.

New blog post (with @jpober.bsky.social) on what makes a theory "superficial" vs "deep", using superficial functionalism and dispositionalism about belief and early Mendelian theories of inheritance as examples. [Link in 1st reply]

WCCFL may have left me feeling, for the first time in my life, syntaxed out

chomsky (1995 et seq)

spimsley pete@fattypinner.bsky.social · last yr.

good word, “minimalism”, nobody’s heard this word before, i’m saying “minimalism, minimalism” and people say “what?” they don’t know the word, it’s a good word. it’s a good, it’s an old word, very old, but nobody knows. nobody knows. i say it. i say “minimalism” good word

Wow I got out ahead of the Philosophy Twitter exodus and now everyone I used to know is here :D

Never really jived with BlueSky when I was last on here because it was a bit more LinkedIn-esque, let's say, than the soapboxing-at-the-bar-in-the-middle-of-a-conference vibe Ling Twitter had when it was at its best. Has that changed over the last year?

Logging in for the first time in a year to say I'll be at WCCFL in Seattle! Come say hi

Why is overt Ā-movement of a silent operator like overt Ā-movement of a pronounced lexical item, and not like covert Ā-movement of a pronounced lexical item? It could have been different. I feel like the answer we give tells us a lot about how to think of PF and the overt/covert distinction.

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Me when an article is printed in a two column format: 😤🤢🤮 Me setting a one column paper to display in spreads: 🥰😍☺️

Yes I like antisymmetry I just choose to not be weird about it

Should I get into writing my name as <Malhār>

Threw a 3-page speculative note about vehicle change and movement-based binding (à la Lidz & Idsardi 1998; Hornstein 2001, i.a.) onto lingbuzz: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

me: I love your socks! her: Thanks! They came in a pair, and the other pair was pink... me: *disassociates in semanticist*

Anyone know of a language that allows subjectless sentences but only allows anaphors in object position when the subject is overt?

This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summer I will actually write stuff. This summe