That feeling when you have a really cool research topic but you know jack shit about how to even begin answering it.

Alice Bob Charlie.

Truth.

RT @linguistlist: Calls: Philosophies - "The Logical Linguistic Legacy of Montague Grammar" (Jrnl): This is a call to contribute to the Spe….

"sink in" is also idiomatic, so there's that too. "Let the ship sink in" sounds odd, I'd leave out "in" here.

Question for linguists: what is the difference between "in" in (1) and (2)? How are they analysed differently, syntactically and semantically?. (1) [Let [that sink] in]. (2) [Let [that] [sink in]]. Is "sink in" in (2) a phrasal verb? If so, what about "let X in" in (1)?.

What's the issue with ending a section with an example sentence? Does it cause typesetting issues?. I have definitely seen papers with examples at the end of a section just before another section header.

RT @mirchond: It’s well-known that a Zoroastrian community was established in Gujarat after the Arabs conquered Iran. Less known is that th….

RT @avzaagzonunaada: I didn’t see this before, but Liljegren & Soan have published an illustrtion of the IPA for Gawarbati: .

Split-ergativity doesn't emerge magically out of nothing. It usually develops due to reanalysis of certain marked morphosyntactic constructions (like, say, in Indo-Aryan perfectives). Does Dravidian show any signs of such a process having happened?.

She's taken 3 premises that are already on shaky grounds and come to an even more baseless conclusion regarding ergativity in Dravidian. Does she have an idea of *how* ergativity was lost in modern Dravidian, or can she point to any traces of ergativity in modern Dravidian lgs?.

There already is a huge amount of literature on the development of split-ergativity in Indo-Aryan and Iranic. But Mohan ignores all of that and attributes ergativity in IA to substrate influence, without making clear why, in her view, ergativity *has* to be contact-motivated.

Thirdly, she also believes that the development of (split-)erativity in Middle Indo-Aryan is due to the influence of this Dravidian IVC substrate. From these 3, she concludes that Proto-Dravidian, the IVC lg, had ergativity and that all modern Dravidian lgs have since lost it.

Peggy Mohan in her AMA on Reddit ( makes a bizarre claim: Proto-Dravidian had ergativity. Firstly, she believes that the IVC language was Dravidian. Secondly, she believes that this Dravidian IVC language was a substrate for Modern Indo-Aryan languages.

Just learnt from that Johannes Bronkhorst passed away in May of this year. Here's Elisa Freschi's post about it (she shared this on the other app, I don't think she's here anymore):.

Completely unrelated: "implode a fricative" sounds funny, for whatever reason.

RT @phono_logical: @langofmind Not sure if this counts but I’ve argued with colleagues that many so-called phonological processes in Turkis….

What lack of logophoric pronouns do to a language. Smh english do better.

RT @maria_esipova: New paper: . tl;dr: Exclamatives like 'How smart Anya is!' do not in fact behave in the discours….

RT @LangSciPress: Just published "Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic" edited by Ulrike Demske & Barthe Bloo….