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Referent finding in Zits
Today’s Zits features Jeremy, his buddy Hector, and his dad: In panel 1, Jeremy introduces two entities into the discourse: (E1) the dead squirrel and (E2) the engine of the van that Jeremy and Hector...
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Extraction and insertion
(The main content is fairly technical stuff about syntax. But there’s a side discussion of gay pornstars, their bodies, and their roles in man-man sex, so probably not suitable for kids.) From the Boys...
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Discourse referents in hypothetical worlds
The datum here comes from a STOP-Homophobia.com posting on Facebook with an affecting plea from a young Australian man about same-sex marriage: The set-up: I don’t have a boyfriend right now, with the...
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Motherhood and stupid PAP
Starting around the 9th, making the rounds on Facebook, a Daily Mail (U.K.) story from 2016, with a disturbing video under the heading (H): This mother took her children’s phones and shot them to teach...
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Anaphora into proper names
From Larry Horn on ADS-L yesterday under the subject line “Navigating those islands”, noting that in this case “the relevant islands are (i) in Florida and (ii) in the morphosyntactic context below”:...
View ArticleProsthetics on an anaphoric island
I posted yesterday on anaphoric islands — “Smoke from a island”, here — and then of course immediately came across a wonderful example, in a 12/1 Economist article on prosthetic limbs, where the...
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Playful anaphoric islanding
Adrienne Shapiro on Facebook on the 14th, reporting on a day trip from Seattle with Kit Transue: Cape Disappointment did not [understood: disappoint]. An instance of the anaphoric construction VPE...
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If a man does it, …
(A number of jokes, but also some seriously technical linguistics.) A joke going the rounds on the net recently, here from a exchange posted on Facebook on 3/24 (yes, yes, I am incredibly far behind on...
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Annals of the AIC: the African American vote
Ali Velshi, on MSNBC on 2/23 (yes, yes, I am absurdly far behind in my posting, maybe irretrievably; life has been very hard), talking about: (a) … the African American vote, and what is motivating...
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Calvin becomes a personage
Two Calvin and Hobbes cartoons recently — yesterday and today (originally from 4/8 and 4/9/91) — in my comics feed, in which Calvin takes on a title (the epithet the Bold) and adopts illeism (referring...
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