Next time someone tells me they don't want to get bogged down in semantics I'm going to bog them down in syntax

Language folks: what is your favorite example of a semantic feature that is marked in language A and not in language B but still has syntactic repercussions in language B?

Semanticists and semantics-adjacent people who study causation in language, join us at COCOA (Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses) for our annual causal models tutorial, Jan 19, 15h Paris time. Students especially welcome, no knowledge of causal models required. DM for link.

Join us online for Agency and Intentions in Language 4 next week! ail-workshop.github.io/AIL4-Workshop/

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The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price.
My column on a modern-day Scrooge
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

And yet we can’t get an answer from our school about whether they were informed about this before we informed them 🧐

hey philosophers and linguists, if I want to get at the very beginnings of model-theoretic semantics, what should I read?

Very excited about this new paper PNASNews:

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk?

How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬

INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

(What’s that? You wanna play with speech tagging? Cool, Alex Cristia's team led by Marvin Lavechin created a new speech tech algorithm that gave us the same results as the LENA one, and it’s OPENLY available here: arxiv.org/abs/2005.12656 . Use it! #OpenScience ) 4/14

New York Times, Ed Yong; 'Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist'

'Even that March, people with similar illnesses like myalgic encephalomyelitis...had warned that the new pathogen would trigger a wave of disability.'

nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…

A new study suggests fermentation, not cooking, fueled human brain evolution. This dietary shift may have provided the key calories needed for our ancestors' larger brains. A fascinating link to explore between diet, brain development, and health!

neurosciencenews.com/fermentation-b…

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Less than 24hrs after I did this thread, Statistics Canada published the first report I have seen on prevalence of ever having contracted Long Covid by 1st, 2nd, and 3rd infection. They found a 1st infection prevalence of 14.6%. So I plugged that in to my model, with their findings.

I work for an agency that is looking for linguists for the following language pairs for an urgent medical project:
- Swedish to Dutch.
- Swedish to Slovenian.
- Swedish to Arabic.

Please contact me if you are interested.