Also tangentially, the nice expression "I haven't the foggiest!" (= I have no idea; I haven't the faintest idea)

English "God (only) knows"

I offer autumn at the Notre Dame this weekend

It's a bold move to take credit for your article!

This reminds me of the person at SLE2025 in Bordeaux who suggested at the AI round table that we start doing research on endangered languages by training an LLM on them and asking it for grammaticality judgements, even when the last speakers are dead 🥲

I am co-convening WS06 with Mark Van de Velde, on the effects of maximality constraints on verb structure. We welcome relevant submissions on any Bantu/Bantoid language - see the full description here: www.bantugent.ugent.be/wp-content/u... #Bantu11

Here are the 11 workshops: www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/#anc... #Bantu11

Absolutely no way you could serve this in the UK! Gave me quite the culture shock

I'm told I just gave what must have been the first ever linguistics talk in Bayreuth's the new African studies building. Let's hope for many more!