Just Syntax Things

Three syntacticians walk into A'

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Coordination and coordination and coordination

Follow the link for a delightful experience: http://www.let.rug.nl/dvries/pdf/2006-coordination-ron.pdf

Thanks to Brent for discovering this on LinguistList!

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Many thanks to Alec!

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Kanye, W. The antisymmetry of syntax. No. 25. MIT Press, 1994.

Thanks Nathan!

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...and it's not PP

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Inspired by Zac’s LSA handout.

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[madddscience]

Good definition of science fiction: “No, it doesn’t make sense, but it’s internally consistent in the lack of sense it’s making.”

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This is how one reads syntax papers.

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by Alec

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Party at the LSA

From the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, January 8-11, 2015.

To the tune of Miley's hit 'Party in the USA' Hopped off the bus at the Portland stop With my native-speaker intuitions Welcome to the land of 90s pop Gotta think of some good questions Walked up the street Here I am for the first time Look to my right and I see a conference sign This is all so crazy Can't wait to meet some famous linguists My presentation sucks and I'm feeling kind of worthless Too much pressure and I'm nervous But that's when the sound-man turned on the mic And Dr. Wassink's talk began And Dr. Wassink's talk began And Dr. Wassink's talk began So I put my hand up I have a question (The butterflies fly away) She's nodding her head like 'yeah' 'I see what you're saying, yeah' I got my hand up Another question I love the idea, OK? So yeah, let's party at the LSA Yeah, let's party at the LSA

Get to the lounge on the highest floor Ben Zimmer's got the mic on now Like 'What's that word with the hashtag on?' 'I can't even' yelled the under-30 crowd

My presentation sucks and I'm feeling kind of worthless Too much pressure and I'm nervous But that's when we nominated 'platisher' As a failure of a word As a failure of a word As a failure of a word

So I put my hand up A nomination We need a majority Nodding my head like, yeah 'Salty's a good word,' yeah So I put my hand up A nomination 56 votes for 'bae' Yeah, it's a party at the LSA Yeah, it's a party at the LSA Yeah, it's a party at the LSA

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Thanks to Alec and Rik!

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Thanks to Brent!