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RIP, Emanuel Schegloff. #EmanuelSchegloff #Schegloff

RIP, Emanuel Schegloff. #EmanuelSchegloff #Schegloff

I discovered this work (I'm a bit ashamed to say) by accident: I was trying to figure out what words Marian Gold (Alphaville) was using...

I discovered this work (I'm a bit ashamed to say) by accident: I was trying to figure out what words Marian Gold (Alphaville) was using in the fourth verse of his “Song for No One”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Dad5LVcms (I'm not at all ashamed to be a longtime Alphaville fan, I don't care what any of you think of me because of that), and my web search quickly led me to Paul's work. I love these kinds of weird connections, because they make me feel that we are all, well, connected.

What a shame, on the other hand, that @paulbaker had his Mastodon account on the now defunct mastodon.lol server and no longer seems to have...

What a shame, on the other hand, that @paulbaker had his Mastodon account on the now defunct mastodon.lol server and no longer seems to have an account in the Fediverse. I'm very much looking forward to meeting him: he's famous among corpus linguists for his corpus-linguistic work, of course, but he has also done fascinating work on #Polari, a secret language/slang used by gay men in Britain into the 1970s. 1/2

How cool is it, by the way, that @uniinnsbruck is running its own #Mastodon instance!

How cool is it, by the way, that @uniinnsbruck is running its own #Mastodon instance!

I'm very honored to be joining @paulbaker, Gerlinde Mautner and Rachelle Vessey as a plenary speaker at next year's Corpora &...

I'm very honored to be joining @paulbaker, Gerlinde Mautner and Rachelle Vessey as a plenary speaker at next year's Corpora & Discourse conference at the @uniinnsbruck in the beautiful (if, to be honest, slightly claustrophobia-inducingly surrounded-by-mountains) town of Innsbruck! https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/cads2024/

When students present papers from before about 2010, they often start with something like “I will present a very old study from 2009, The...

When students present papers from before about 2010, they often start with something like “I will present a very old study from 2009, The Nature of Generalization in Language by Adele Goldberg”, and then I feel like an ancient rock slowly being eroded by the elements. But today I received a term paper that started by saying “Grammaticalization is a very recent idea, introduced by Antoine Meillet in 1912”, and now I'm running and leaping through my apartment like a lamb across a meadow in Spring.

Dear (linguist and non-linguist) native/highly-proficient speakers of English who are familiar with the phrase "trip the light...

Dear (linguist and non-linguist) native/highly-proficient speakers of English who are familiar with the phrase "trip the light fantastic", how would you normally pronounce it: With primary stress both on "LIGHT" and on the syllable "TAS" (Option 1); with secondary stress (or no stress) on "light" and primary stress on the syllable "TAS" (Option 2), or some other way (please describe in reply)? @linguistics

the LIGHT fanTAStic (ðə ˈlaɪt fæn.ˈtæs.tɪk)
the light fanTAStic (ðə ˌlaɪt fæn.ˈtæs.tɪk)
other, namely:
No opinion, just want to see the results.

Just mistakenly typed “hidiom” instead of “idiom”, and I suggest we start using this as a term for hideous idioms, for example,...

Just mistakenly typed “hidiom” instead of “idiom”, and I suggest we start using this as a term for hideous idioms, for example, “sell s.o. down the river”, “grow a pair”, “confined to a wheelchair”, etc.

Let me put the question differently: Any suggestions for search terms on Google scholar? If I try things like ["formal semantics"...

Let me put the question differently: Any suggestions for search terms on Google scholar? If I try things like ["formal semantics" "antonymy"] or ["formal semantics" "derivational morphology"], I get very few relevant results... @linguistics

Are there no formal semanticists around (they could all be on λz [SKY(z) & BLUE(z)], I guess)? Or is there no such (recent) literature?...

Are there no formal semanticists around (they could all be on λz [SKY(z) & BLUE(z)], I guess)? Or is there no such (recent) literature? I've looked at Katz (1972) of course, and Cann (1993) is nice, but both are a bit old school, no? There must be something more recent! @linguistics

Tach och, fellow linguists! I've been looking for (recent) formal semantics treatments of #LexicalSemantics (particularly lexical...

Tach och, fellow linguists! I've been looking for (recent) formal semantics treatments of #LexicalSemantics (particularly lexical relations) and/or #DerivationalMorphology, but I haven't been too successful so far (it's not my specialty and I may not know how to look properly). Any pointers would be highly appreciated! #followerpower @linguistics

Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s another terrible joke from The American Tyler (April 1st,1900), which linguists should...

Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s another terrible joke from The American Tyler (April 1st,1900), which linguists should appreciate:

A small boy in the juvenile grammar class, being told to compare the adjective “little” answered: “Little, small, nothing at all.”

…and he feared that such a billionaire would be “the boss of us all”. This hearing took place in 1885, and yet Swinton foresaw...

…and he feared that such a billionaire would be “the boss of us all”. This hearing took place in 1885, and yet Swinton foresaw precisely what would happen and he knew exactly how it could be prevented. Sadly, nobody seems to have listened... 5/5

Read the passage on Google Books here: https://books.google.de/books?id=RMkJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1117

And for the education: Another hit occurred in the transcript of a Senate hearing on the relations between labor and capital, where the...

And for the education: Another hit occurred in the transcript of a Senate hearing on the relations between labor and capital, where the publisher and journalist John Swinton talks about the problems related to the fact that soon, the first billionaire would exist in the US. He argues in favor for an income tax high enough to prevent this, as such a billionaire would be difficult to control; Swinton thought it could be done if the entire Army and Navy was put to the task… 4/

“The angry father strode into the parlor.‘Girls,’ he said, ‘who are these young men?’‘Papa.’ replled one of the daughters,...

“The angry father strode into the parlor.
‘Girls,’ he said, ‘who are these young men?’
‘Papa.’ replled one of the daughters, ‘this is Mr. Young and this is Mr. Yates.’ Whereupon the old gentleman invitingly opened the door.
‘Git!’ he thundered.
And they got. A word to the Y's was sufficient.” 3/

I found a four hits for "(be) the boss of us all", the earliest from 1864, and one for "the boss of them" from 1867. My...

I found a four hits for "(be) the boss of us all", the earliest from 1864, and one for "the boss of them" from 1867. My curiosity was satisfied — the phrase did exist and could have been used. Now for the entertainment: One of the hits was on the humor page of the magazine “The American Tyler”, featuring some of the worst jokes I have ever read. Here's an example: 2/

Corpus-linguistic inquiry supplied me with serendipitous entertainment and wisdom again, today. I noticed the use of the phrase “be the...

Corpus-linguistic inquiry supplied me with serendipitous entertainment and wisdom again, today. I noticed the use of the phrase “be the boss of someone” in the Netflix Western drama series “Godless” and was interested to know if this phrase was already used in 1884 (when the series is set). The Oxford English Dictionary did not provide any citations, so I searched Google Books for "the boss of (him|her|you|me|us|them)", restricting the search to the 19th Century and earlier. 1/

Got the following email: “I have been exploring your work with great interest, and I was particularly intrigued by your recent paper...

Got the following email: “I have been exploring your work with great interest, and I was particularly intrigued by your recent paper ‘Introduction’. I think it's a valuable and timely contribution to the field, and I believe that SciTube would be a great platform for sharing it with a wider audience.”

I am so happy, that finally someone saw the value and timeliness of my paper “Introduction”! I myself happen to think that “Introduction” constitutes the best 1½ pages of my recent oeuvre!

The sixth day of #iclc16 begins! Looking forward to the plenary by… wait, where is everybody?!?

The sixth day of #iclc16 begins! Looking forward to the plenary by… wait, where is everybody?!?

The third day of #iclc16 ends, like every day in the life of a cognitive linguist, with the brushing of teeth as a metonymy for getting...

The third day of #iclc16 ends, like every day in the life of a cognitive linguist, with the brushing of teeth as a metonymy for getting ready for bed.