You joke, but every morning while you're still asleep, I get up at the crack of time t, have a cup of coffee,and then get straight to Φing.

"You there, good sir! Would you mind giving me the time?" "But of course, my good man. It is now time t." "Is It really?! Time t already? Then I'm afraid I must be off, for at time t I must Φ!"

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA. snl-journal.org The Editors Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz

My paper with Josep Ausensi and Jianrong Yu "Strong and weak resultatives with result roots in English and Spanish" has just been published in Isogloss! doi.org/10.5565/rev/...

this is so perfect as a phrasing "AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote about AI -- but, really, about the close proximity to psychosis it brings us all to... a trillion dollar project to detach us all from reality, one way or another... disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...

please I am begging you stop using ai for everything, please learn to value your own labor!!

I'm giving a talk at this very cool workshop on Memory and Language in Grenoble this month! I'll be talking about the semantics of a particular kind of memory report in Persian and Kurdish and implications for the relationship between semantics and philosophy of memory. phil-mem.org/events/2026-...

We are hiring next year in semantics- one year positions of course less exciting and good for the field than straight up tenure track postings, but on the other hand hiring in something that isn’t computational feels like a win anymore in linguistics. Come bring some innovative takes on meaning!

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

Tobias S. Buckell@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

They should do MyChart Wrapped

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

Interested in Balkan languages? The definitive reference work has arrived – on 1000 pages, in open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Sanskrit speakers were calling their leaders “the goat”, it appears.

Our paper, From state to change of state by type-shift, has officially been published open access at Natural Language Semantics! Take a look! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From state to change of state by type-shift - Natural Language Semantics

This paper proposes a type-shifting analysis of state/change-of-state lability (Koontz-Garboden et al. in Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages, Ms., 2023): in languages with no...

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Kit Fine is the Steve Reich of analytic philosophy (no, I will not be elaborating)

Big news! I am very excited to announce that I will be starting as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University this fall! I'm beyond thrilled to be joining such a fantastic department and very much looking forward to everything to come.

Happy to share my collaborative work with Vera Hohaus, "Scope, monotonicity and maximal informativity cannot be underestimated! A compositional analysis of an apparent linguistic illusion," which has just been published in the Proceedings of SALT34! journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...

Happy to announce that my paper with Jens Hopperdietzel and Andrew Koontz-Garboden on a type-shifting approach to state/change-of-state lability has been accepted–pending minor revisions–at Natural Language Semantics! Happy this will be out soon!

Anyways I had a genuine scientific need to find/recall/google dad jokes in Spanish so please disfrutádlos

Happy to announce I'll be presenting a talk at NACIL4 in Toronto, as well as a poster at WCCFL43 in Seattle! The NACIL talk is about the form and semantics of memory reports in Persian and Sorani Kurdish, and the WCCFL poster is about an understudied use of re- in English. Fun!

Happy to report I'll be giving a talk and a poster presentation at this year's Sinn und Bedeutung! Looking forward to Sicily in September!

Off to Nantes for TripleA 11! Very much looking forward to the conference, which was my favorite last year, as well as checking out a city in France other than Paris!

Heading out for SALT34 tomorrow, where I'll be presenting joint work with Vera Hohaus on "Scope, monotonicity and maximal informativity cannot be underestimated! A compositional analysis of an apparent linguistic illusion." Looking forward to it!

Very happy to share that my paper "Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian" has been published open access in Natural Language Semantics! You can check it out via the link below! doi.org/10.1007/s11050-024-09221-8

Happy to announce I'll be giving a talk at CLS60 this year on my most recent work: "Growth and improvement: a quality semantics for result state nominals." Very excited to present on this!

Recently realized I wrote in a job application that I was writing to apply to the department's "tenure-track Visiting Assistant Professor position." 🤦‍♂️

Very, very pleased to announce that Vera Hohaus and I have a poster at SALT this year! At least one of us will be there to present "Scope, monotonicity and maximal informativity cannot be underestimated ! A compositional analysis of an apparent linguistic illusion." Very much looking forward to it!

Pleased to announce that my paper "Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian," has been accepted for publication in Natural Language Semantics! Many thanks to everyone who played a role in the development of this paper!