To celebrate my first marathon, I'm raising money for Cure Cancer, funding research grants for early career cancer researchers. If you too like research and dislike cancer, please consider supporting this worthy cause. I really appreciate all your help! sm23.grassrootz.com/curecancer/jay…

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I have written a paper about Ancestral State Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics. It is out now in Diachronica. benjamins.com/catalog/dia.22…

There are unique challenges to being an academic in the Southern Hemisphere. This ain’t one of them 😂 Some light comedy for this spring Sunday evening

Mitch is a wonderful linguist and I'm lucky to have him as a good friend and colleague. Very excited to get my hands on this one

Locatives are highly polyfunctional. Perhaps surprisingly, these functions don't seem to spread (much) via inheritance or contact. A first typological survey of LOC functions in Pama-Nyungan, presented at @AusLingSoc #ALS2024. Slides: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… Maria Copot

New research by Maria Copot reveals French 'defective verbs' aren't truly ungrammatical—they're victims of social stigma. Acceptability judgments correlate with prescriptivist attitudes and lexeme frequency, challenging existing defectiveness theory doi.org/10.1515/ling-2…