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Just elected to the American Academy
… of Arts and Sciences, (at least) 7 scholars in linguistics and the language sciences — 6 women and one man: — in Psychological Sciences, Leda Cosmides (UC Santa Barbara) and Virginia Valian (CUNY) —...
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Puer mingens at the Prenup Pub
(warning: packed with allusions to, and sculptures of, playful cherubic penises, so subject to both the Art and the Infant exemptions from the X-rating of human penises (even those — or, maybe,...
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Hail to Heidi Harley
Old news, but then I’ve been out of the world at SUMC for some time and didn’t get this posted before the cascade of disasters: Heidi Harley (Univ. of Arizona) has been nominated as president of the...
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The lost penguin art
I wrote to Sally Thomason in e-mail earlier today: While I have been recuperating (slowly) from gallbladder surgery, I have a wonderful helper León [León Hernández, in full León Hernández Alvarez] who...
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More Sally Thomason, and Anne Cutler too
A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “The lost penguin art”, about Sally Thomason’s delightful creature-doodle art, with an excursus on Sally herself: Sally is not just a good friend of very long...
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Turkish Neutrogena
Neutrogena hand cream (for dry or chapped hands), specifically. Which I’ve used as a moisturizer for dry skin and a healing cream for abraded skin, on various parts of my body (especially as an adjunct...
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The 2024 Arnold Zwicky Award
From the Linguistic Society of America’s Secretariat this morning: Arnold Zwicky Award: This award, given for the first time in 2021 [as the 2022 AZ Award], is intended to recognize the contributions...
View ArticleAutoimmune annals
Mostly an accumulation of unblogged material from the past — on, however, a topic that’s immediately relevant to my current medical treatments (stemming from two doctor’s appointments on 11/21), which...
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Z of the Amazon
An announcement on the Language Typology mailing list on 12/30: we are hosting the ninth Syntax of the World’s languages in Lima (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) between July 23th and 26th...
View ArticleThree days to crown dark January
A sequence of birthdays: 1/25 Robbie Burns (the Scottish poet and lyricist), 1759 1/26 Edward Sapir (the American linguist, born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland), 1884 1/27 BOTH...
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