Victoria Noble

The rumours are true!!! @dannybate.bsky.social is in York, and he’s doing a talk!!! HYPE

I went to Waterstones earlier today IN THE RAIN specifically to find this book 👀

Just bought Danny Bate’s new book!!! Very excited to start it tonight 👀 @dannybate.bsky.social will you sign it for me?

Just emailed you lol

@dannybate.bsky.social

For info - if you are sending me DMs I can’t read them because Bluesky wants me to confirm my age via face scan. I refuse to do this. If you want to contact me directly I still have access to Twitter (ew) direct messaging.

Yup! That’s why we call it a “grinder” reading. The classic thought experiment is you can put something through the meat grinder and refer to its constituent “stuff”.

There’s dog/elephant/lion/donkey/apple/mango/boy all over the wall.

Genuine question: what do you get from commenting this?

I’m out here, bringing some fun linguistic research out of the ivory tower of academia, and all you care about is the grammar of the post?

I don’t care for the distinction in everyday language, and Bluesky is not my thesis.

Want to know more, and see how this plays out in other languages?

Non-singular reference: some preliminaries - Pelletier 1975

How Universal is the Universal Grinder? - Cheng et al 2008

Semantics for counting and measuring - Rothstein 2017

My thesis 😜 to be defended summer 2025!!!

Linguistics in the wild on Reddit!

This phenomena comes under the general study of nominal flexibility. Often referred to as “grinding”, when a singular count noun in English has no article (a), this leads to a “stuff” reading. Compare (1), which is grammatical:

1. There is dog all over the road!

Where are the linguists talking about the reconstructed Dacian in Nosferatu? 🙏🏼

Ahhhhh nice

Ahhhh my maternity cover as a lecturer at QMUL is coming to an end. Had a blast, been inspired by some excellent students… no into the next adventure!

[if you know of postdocs/positions in formal semantics hit me up 🙏🏼 or if you wanna start a podcast with me because that’s what millennials do hehe]

New paper accepted for publication — feel free to ask for a preprint if interested!

I did some digging, and I’m apparently on some Cymraeg/Welsh enthusiast lists! How very exciting

Thanks for listening and giving feedback! Diolch!! 🥰

Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it 🥰

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Hello to all the new followers who are #Cymraeg / #Welsh enthusiasts like myself 🥰

While you’re here, may I suggest you pop over and listen to my episode on @dannybate.bsky.social’s podcast A Language I Love Is? It’s a good 40 minutes of us just loving Cymraeg!

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For reasons unknown I am getting no a lot of new followers here?! Have I done something interesting? Doubtful, I haven’t posted in forever

Screenshot of the title of a book's epilogue

I did it, I actually bloody did it

You'd have said it was a stupid idea to research and write a book in four months, with a twenty-six chapters and a ticking clock

And you'd be right, it was a stupid idea

But I did it anyway

And just like that, #lagb2024 is over! I’ve met some old friends and made some new ones. As always, LAGB is the nicest conference around. Everybody wants you to succeed.

Also, I learned some cool new things, my personal favourite about Greek gender agreement patterns :D

I’m at #LAGB this week and today I learnt about Sinhala phonology and French gender inclusive doublets and how ‘phonemic fluctuation’ is not a thing (thanks racism) and that you can’t necessarily grind all nouns into gross flesh and people in Whalsey use fancy prepositions and I ate too many crisps

Shwmae / مرحبا !!

Welsh and Arabic are a great combination of two very unrelated languages that are in a number of ways surprisingly similar!

I’m hoping so!!

I feel welcome!

Moving on over here from the bird app. Help a lost linguist find her audience 🖤

Some hashtags with my academic interests to help me:
#lingsuistics #semantics #syntax #formallinguistics #pragmatics #psycholinguistics #philosophy #metaphysics #Cymraeg #Welsh #العربية #Arabic

Nice to know I’m the gross flesh girl hehehehe