Agreed. I find black-and-white, us-vs-them mentality of this field really exhausting and counterproductive, and I feel like linguists overall have good-of-center values. I'd be really troubled if a big functionalist was implicated, because it's bad for the field and, y'know, in general...

Very far outside of my field expertise, but there's an observation that Irish uses two different complementizers. One form is sensitive to whether there's a wh-element that crossed it and whether there's a resumptive, and the other isn't

Oh yes, but not in Arabic (not yet, anyway)! The curious part about resumption in English vs. Arabic is where the pronoun pops up in and when/whether it's perceived as 'good'. Actually, there's interesting work on the interaction between resumption and complementizer choice in Irish by Jim McCloskey

Also I know that that-trace is hot again and people have newer ideas than what I ever learned, so I'm sure the form of the problem is more interesting than it was back in 2015!

There are dubious claims about dialectal variation of that-trace effects! In my dissertation I showed that the arguments for these are not compelling, and that the real variation probably is not "dialectal" (i.e. kids in place X vs. place Y need to learn different grammars wrt that-trace)

(This was me *MISHEARING* someone; but I'm still counting it as a datapoint, just fyi)

The 15-second loop of it playing the first time you encounter Praline à La Mode has been stuck in my head since the original came out 10 years ago, it needed to be honored

It's a semilattice structure! Some theories of count/mass distinction make use of a mereology that assumes something like this; count nouns pick out the 'atomic' level (the bottom rung) and plurals pick out the higher rungs, and mass nouns might lack the 'atomic' level

none of my students in my morning undergrad class found this funny but just fyi it is very funny

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Noooo!!!!! I thought I was clever and original!!! Curse you Yoda

#linguistics this is an important scientific observation