#Linguistics

Michael Pleyer

symbolicstorage

The second talk in the #futureoflinguistics webinar is by @drculbertson: The future of linguistics is multidisciplinary, multimodal, multicultural What are elements of a theory of language?- features of the linguistics

Mary Ann Lund

BurtonsAnatomy

Ways you can help Leicester English:1) sign, share, and retweet the open letter from @ETreharne #AcademicTwitter #MedievalTwitter #EarlyModern #linguistics 1/https://twitter.com/ETreharne/status/1352751925817528320 2) Write to the Vice-Chan

Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿

koutchoukalimar

Last week I tweeted this. One of the comments argued that the origin of Arabic qamīṣ < Latin camisia is hypothetical. It reminds me of people sometimes say "well [proven

James Durran

jdurran

So much hysteria (on both 'sides') about primary #grammar, mostly from people who don't teach it, or who don't know much about grammar. Knowing some theory and terminology can be

cass @ hisoka's hand holder 😳

smolcaspy

also since im still mad about my friend here being made fun of im gonna teach yall about a lil thing called Grammaticalityin linguistics, the scientific study of the structure

Dr. Shiva Balaghi

SBalaghi

Let me tell you a story. Something we're not supposed to talk about--not even in hushed whispers amongst ourselves. Many of the famed Islamic Art historians of earlier generations focused

NaoB

BishopNaomi

@NEJM published an article about Misrepresenting Race in Medicine and guess what? They talk about the Akimel O'odham and diabetes. The article says "U.S. Akimel O'odham (formally known as Pima)"

Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the

Antifa Tractor Total Landscaping Shark

DarthMamaShark

Hey kids, guess what - do the things you're interested in in school. Folks will tell you you will NEVER use them, but here's a little story.My folks made me

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n A short story!Many Islamists were baffled to read my tweets about Mecca being non-existent on maps till 9th century. As first trait these morons started to google.Many searched Wikipedia

antifa Tifa

checarina

COMMON GRAMMAR MISTAKES TO AVOID! (thread)1. LESS/FEWER. This one is really embarrassing. You may think pointing out the difference between these two at every opportunity makes you CLEVER and INTERESTING.

Holiday Murshak

amurshak

I learned to code when I left college the 2nd time and was bedridden for a few months. Enough to get a low-level configuration job with a local software company.

The Language Revolution

LangRevolution

Fronted adverbials, a thread. Firstly, a letter from @MichaelRosenYes pointing out the sheer arbitrariness of them being in the curriculum for primary children anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/23/dear-gavin-williamson-

Charlie

janeandharry

Oh look, a prescriptivist.I get it; I used to insist on grammar “rules” too because I enjoy learning them, but studying linguistics opened my eyes to how snobbish the idea

Martin Haspelmath

haspelmath

Thanks again to @davidadger for commenting on my “general linguistics” paper. I take the point that Minimalism may not mean abandoning the natural-kinds approach, but may reduce the posited natural

Tentin Quarantino

agraybee

One of the more basic concepts in linguistics is that of thematic relations. These are categories we give to various words based on the role they play in a described

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