podcast: S.H.A.p.e. shorts
2021
S.H.A.P.E. (Science, Humanities, Arts, Philosophy, and Education) Shifters aims to foster dialogue across academic disciplines. I spoke with them about linguistics and languages.
podcast: the jeff rubin jeff rubin show
2020
Jeff Rubin does “interviews you didn’t know you wanted to hear”. In the episode More (scroll down), I talked with Jeff about my new book, what linguistics is, and why I bothered to spend so much time on a project about a single word.
BLOG: LANGUAGE LOG
2018
My Journal of Semantics paper, “The anatomy of a comparative illusion”, stimulated renewed conversation about Escher sentences. Compare your reaction to the sentences with those in the comments section of the post More people have thought about this than I have.
BLOG: the daily noUS
2018
In Philosophers Among Recent NSF Grant Winners, I was outed as a scientist.
news: international business times
2014
For A Search For Meaning: Why We Obsessed With The Word 'Culture' In 2014, I commented on an apparent semantic shift between the words culture (Merriam Webster’s 2014 Word of the Year) and its near-synonym society.