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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thrilled to see this paper finally out! Kyle Jerro and I explore how interactions of idiosyncratic and regular parts of a verb's meaning explain varation in when and how argument alternations arise, but also the limits of that approach in explaining the variation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The role of root semantics in determining argument alternations - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Argument alternations are an empirical mainstay in studying the building blocks of verb meaning and how such meanings link to a verb’s grammatical properties. Event structures are widely adopted for e...

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

UT Linguistics is hiring a temporary faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction whose work is on semantics! See the following link for more details: apply.interfolio.com/187891.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We are hiring! Come join us at UT Austin!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: The Beetles

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congrats to @vshirazy.bsky.social for winning a NSF GRFP! Venus is writing a fascinating honors thesis on Farsi complex predicates, and has long been my editorial assistant at Language. She's amazing, and I know she'll excel at her next adventure in the Linguistics PhD program at U. of Chicago!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

All these people having a problem with the ADS word of the year being “rawdog”, wait till they get a load of the word “sucks”!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

I have to do cybersecurity training again. I have an idea: UT should send everyone an email with the subject line "CHECK THIS OUT!!1!" and the body is a long, ugly-ass link. If you click it it takes you to the training module and it becomes mandatory. If you don't click it, you don't have to do it.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Back at UT at last, but it was an honor to spend three weeks at Rochester as the first Ivan A. Sag Fellow! What a fantastic group of faculty and grad students they have! For anyone interested, here're handouts and recordings for the Sag Lectures. sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/curr...

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Come present your research at the Texas Linguistics Society 2024! It's gonna be lit!

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Did not have “brain-eating amoebas” on my bingo card.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Ohio State Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in language variation & change or sociolinguistics w/ a specialization in language & race or marginalized languages particularly African American English & language varieties arising through contact. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25772

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Come and join my department! Penn Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track position in Syntax at the rank of Assistant Professor. Follow the link for details. apply.interfolio.com/131974

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Being someone who works on language and who edits a journal called Language I really hate the fact that one word I consistently misspell is "language".

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin is hiring! We are seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Study of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Click the here for details: apply.interfolio.com/131710

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Tomorrow I start my term as Chair of Linguistics at UT Austin, and in preparation I spent this summer retraining myself on email to be faster and more efficient. I'm not perfect at it, but I've gotten a lot better. And tonight I'm proud to say I got my inbox down to 0 for the first time in years.

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John Beavers @jbeavers.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

This looks ... a lot like Twitter.

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