Elaine Francis
@ejfranci2.bsky.social
Prof @ Purdue, ExLing Lab Director https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/
Author of Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradient-acceptability-and-linguistic-theory-9780192898951
Author of Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gradient-acceptability-and-linguistic-theory-9780192898951
Reposted by Elaine Francis
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It’s happening at Purdue too because of the state mandate. Linguistics is getting merged with a few other majors that are unrelated to language studies. No championship football team here either. 🙁
January 20, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It’s happening at Purdue too because of the state mandate. Linguistics is getting merged with a few other majors that are unrelated to language studies. No championship football team here either. 🙁
You have and thank you again!
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You have and thank you again!
I somehow missed this when it came out. Thank you for posting!
January 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I somehow missed this when it came out. Thank you for posting!
Thanks for the shout out! Chapter 5 on corpus frequency and acceptability is probably the most relevant to this discussion.
Also along the same lines is a recent paper by Polinsky, looking more specifically at linguistic variation within bilingual grammars. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Also along the same lines is a recent paper by Polinsky, looking more specifically at linguistic variation within bilingual grammars. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Multiple grammars within linguistic populations: Distributions and theoretical implications
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January 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Thanks for the shout out! Chapter 5 on corpus frequency and acceptability is probably the most relevant to this discussion.
Also along the same lines is a recent paper by Polinsky, looking more specifically at linguistic variation within bilingual grammars. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Also along the same lines is a recent paper by Polinsky, looking more specifically at linguistic variation within bilingual grammars. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Because they can’t possibly address the gun problem. Sigh.
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Because they can’t possibly address the gun problem. Sigh.