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Join me in hearing Lis Norcliffe talk about her newest paper with Asifa Majid in Language on verbs of perception! It’s a terrific paper on how the lexical typology of perception verbs is shaped by conceptual and communicative constraints. Sure to be a great discussion!

Perfect weather in Austin means outdoor afternoon tea and reading. Pastry courtesy of Venus Shirazy and dissertation draft courtesy of May Helena Plumb. Current music on patio speakers: The Late Great Townes Van Zandt.

Congratulations to our colleague and friend Hans Kamp for this award! Hans has been a Visiting Professor at UT every Spring since 2009, and working closely with him has been a highlight of my career. I am delighted to see his seminal work on discourse recognized in this way!

If you are at #SXSW2024 and are interested in crossword puzzles and/or art and/or want to understand the Crossword as Cultural Object, come check out our panel on The Art of Crosswords! 4:00pm today. With Robbie Kubala, Adrienne Raphel, and Natan Last.
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My colleagues do really cool work, and some of it even gets on TV!

If you're at #lsa2024 , Shelome Gooden (Shelome Gooden PhD) and I will be having office hours for Language (@LanguageJofLSA) on Friday, January 4th, at 3:30-5:00pm in the Park 3 room (5th floor). Come by if you have questions about publishing in Language!

The 23rd Texas Linguistics Society conference will be held on Feb. 23-24, 2024. Feel free to submit your abstract through EasyChair - easychair.org/conferences/?c… by Dec. 9. Virtual participants are also welcomed! If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

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I have to do cybersecurity training. I have an idea: UT should send out a mass email with the subject line 'CHECK THIS OUT!!1!' and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training and it becomes mandatory. If you don't, you don't have to do it.

I hate that smug song my washer and dryer play when they're done

semantics PhD students: new dissertation topic just dropped

What in the actual fuck? How am I supposed to even answer this question?

My book with Jason Stanley, the Politics of Language, is out today! It's about how people make meaning, about how meaning resonates, and how we hide meaning in plain sight. We 'hustle'. Our hidden meanings hustle our friends towards us, and our enemies away.

Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at University of Rochester Department of Linguistics as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're the handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curren…

Come present your work at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024!

The Cobra Commander Distinguished Chair of Ethics and Morality