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Stefan Müller100.000 downloads. Robots excluded. This is what authors want: to be read. They do not want prohibitively high book prices.<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammar</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiamondOA</a><a href="https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/380" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/380</a>

waso KasenOK, serious <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a> question. Toki Pona has a number of grammatical morphemes on the left edge of an NP which mark<ul><li>a verb's object (e);</li><li>a complex NP or DP (if you count pronouns and numerals separately from nouns; there are no articles, possessors are adjectival) as an attribute of an NP/DP or VP (pi);</li><li>an ordinal numeral as an attribute of an NP (nanpa).</li></ul>These all look to me like functional heads taking an NP/DP as a complement. For this reason, I'd (naively?) propose classifying them as prepositions of a "functional" kind.However, this suggestion has been met with resistance and criticism on the grounds that<ul><li>the textbook doesn't classify them as prepositions (this is dogmatism and thus a weak argument, IMO);</li><li>different from prepositions (lon 'in, at, on', tawa 'to, towards', etc.) they have no lexical meaning;</li><li>as a consequence, they can't be negated;</li><li>different from prepositions they can occur in subject NPs—PPs are restricted to adverbials and predicative contexts.</li></ul>So, what gives? Which other category besides "(functional) preposition" should they be assigned to if I want to avoid the very broad label "particle" since all grammatical morphemes are classified as "particles" by the textbook, also those in the clausal/verbal domain (la, li, o)?==========Edit: They're maybe better characterized as determiners, I guess? Either as DP heads + nominal complement or in Spec, except that still doesn't seem to fit well with pi as marking complex attribution of a verb.<a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conlang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/tokipona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tokipona</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:Erste Ausgabe von <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/STAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STAR</a> ist erschienen:<a href="https://star-linguistics.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://star-linguistics.org/</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/STAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STAR</a> ist eine von Wissenschaftler*innen geleitete Zeitschrift, die im <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DiamondOpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiamondOpenAccess</a> erscheint. Weder Autor*innen noch Leser*innen müssen Gebühren bezahlen und die Zeitschrift ist nicht gewinnorientiert.Wie bei <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Glossa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Glossa</a>/#Lingua ist das komplette Board von <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> bei <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Wiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiley</a> zurückgetreten und hat sich selbständig gemacht. Well done!

Søren Sandager SørensenSorry to all syntacticians, but my article just came out: "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in Danish" - the reviewers did not comment on the title!It lets you know about what "fuck" and "fucking" is used for in interaction, and how they are distributed across different syntactic constructions and how those are used for different kinds of assessments, sequentially speaking.Open access: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nordic-journal-of-linguistics/article/fuck-syntax-and-fucking-syntax-in-the-borrowing-of-swearwords-for-assessments-in-danish/5DC53ECDDA9525CB04C1AA276AD88DDE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nordic-journal-of-linguistics/article/fuck-syntax-and-fucking-syntax-in-the-borrowing-of-swearwords-for-assessments-in-danish/5DC53ECDDA9525CB04C1AA276AD88DDE</a><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Danish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Danish</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/EMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EMCA</a>

ErikProgramming languages are absolutely mortified of strings, aren’t they. All those arbitrary words with their alien systems of meaning. They have nightmares about stumbling on an unterminated “ AND THEN EVERYTHI <a href="https://typo.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/lexer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lexer</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/electricsheep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electricsheep</a>

Dendrobatus Azureus<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@benjamineskola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@benjamineskola</a>Yes I mean chown.For some odd reason my usage of chown gave only warnings the past few years when I used the incorrect syntax.Thank you for the correction and Enlightenment<a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/chown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chown</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/chmod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chmod</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/command" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#command</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a>

Dendrobatus Azureus<code>chmod user.user</code>was the syntax until until I recently noticed that it was changed to<code>chmod user:user</code>I have to check out why that occurred. I also have to check if they only changed it in the Linux version of the command or if the change was also propagated to the BSD flavors of operating systems<a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/chmod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chmod</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/formatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#formatting</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/command" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#command</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a>

Dan Drake 🦆In lispy languages, you have prefix notation. Mostly this doesn't bother me, except for inequalities:(< a b)My little pea-brain thinks visually and wants the pointy end pointing to the smaller number -- or, equivalently, the alligator eating the larger number.But prefix notation makes it very slick to check for a monotonic sequence with just a single < or >:(< a b c d)that same boolean expression would, with infix notation, be something like(a < b) && (b < c) && (c < d)or maybe a Just a random little thing that I do like about Racket, and lisp-y languages in general.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a>

Sascha WolferSeriously, I'm no native speaker of English, but I get the feeling the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> tree for this monster is more like a FOREST!

Inautilo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Development</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Previews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Previews</a> Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5 · Stack traces for fatal errors, pipe operator, and much more <a href="https://ilo.im/165ec7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ilo.im/165ec7</a>_____ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debugging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Debugging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arrays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arrays</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PHP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Backend</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:3/ Na, gut, das ist dann doch eher eine Fünf-Minus. =:-)<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KI</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a>

Stefan Müller :verified:1/ OK. Da wir jetzt Uni-LLMs haben, spiele ich auch ein bisschen rum. Ich muss sagen, dass das beeindruckend ist. Das Ding kann Syntaxbäume für komplexe Sätze machen, die nicht schlecht sind.Mit Korrelaten, Satzklammern und Extraposition scheint es noch Schwierigkeiten zu geben. Das "sich" hat es auch elegant weggelassen.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KI</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Grammatik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammatik</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a>

Verfassungklage@troet.cafe<a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Orgdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orgdown</a>: Mit der Auskopplung des <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Emacs</a> Org-mode in die <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> der vereinfachten Auszeichnungssprache <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Orgdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orgdown</a>, soll ein besserer Standard als Markdown gesetzt werden. Was Orgdown ist und ob das mit dem neuen Standard etwas werden kann, lest ihr in diesem Artikel. Ihr alle kennt Markdown und nutzt es wahrscheinlich auch. Markdown ist eine vereinfachte Auszeichnungssprache, die von John Gruber entworfen und im Dezember 2004 mit Version 1.0.1 spezifiziert wurde. <a href="https://gnulinux.ch/orgdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gnulinux.ch/orgdown</a>

Stefan MüllerAt this years <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/LFG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LFG</a> conference, I will talk about <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/TAG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TAG</a> and what it shows us for the old phrasal vs. lexical discussion:<a href="https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130</a>I think valence information has to be encoded lexically and lexical rules or empty heads or transformations should be used to derive resultative constructions or caused motion constructions. They can not be related to other constructions in inheritance networks.Comments welcome!<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/ConstructionGrammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstructionGrammar</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/CxG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CxG</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/HPSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HPSG</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a>

Carsten Beckersuno poka pi mute lili la, mi sitelen e lipu lili pi toki insa suli. lipu ni li toki e kulupu nimi La pi toki pona. mi wile e ni: alasa sona mi li pona. mi pakala la, o toki!<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tokipona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tokipona</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conlang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/conlang" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@conlang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a><a href="https://ayeri.de/blog/2025/07/topicalizing-and-inferential-la-in-toki-pona-thoughts-on-constituent-structure/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ayeri.de/blog/2025/07/topicalizing-and-inferential-la-in-toki-pona-thoughts-on-constituent-structure/</a>

Brian SwetlandHmmm.... maybe @ for "pc-relative address operator"....previous instruction: -1@ current instruction: 0@ next instruction: 1@and so on... Or any number of '<'s or '>'s to represent the address the instruction that many before or after...li x3, 5 mul x5, x3, 10 stw x5, (x7) subi x3, x3, 1 bnez x3, <<<(I probably could have already implemented local labels in the time I've been considering this)<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projects</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/assembler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#assembler</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weird</a>

Stefan Müller1/ I am proud to announce that my paper on Generative approaches to Germanic syntax is published:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1073" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1073</a>You may often have asked yourself what we need publishers for. Well, there was peer review and a good editorial process, but my main partner in this was Prof. Oliver Schallert and the editors of the encyclopedia. The remaining task of the publishers is to ruin our manuscripts and they did quite successfully.<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/germanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#germanic</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Thomas Adam<a href="https://bsd.network/tags/todotxr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#todotxr</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/ebnf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ebnf</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bnf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bnf</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/wsn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wsn</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> Are there any grammar/syntax folks here who've worked with (E)BNF/WSN/etc?I'm doing some work on todotxt (<a href="http://todotxt.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://todotxt.org</a>) to define its formal grammar in EBNF. I'm having a terrible time being able to validate its syntax, etc. Every on-line validator I've found (or library via rust) seems to completely disagree on the proper syntax, for example: foo ::= "1" | "2"' ;Some don't like the "::", some want ":=", or "=", some don't like the terminator (";") at the end of the line, etc.I've written EBNF before, although admittedly I just made my own judgement as to the validity of it -- and in this example, the point wasn't to then generate a parsing syntax from it.But with todotxt, I do want to be able to do that, and I'm struggling with all these little discrepancies.Any help/thoughts would be really useful.TIA!

Dendrobatus AzureusThis toot will generate Alt text output for this nice site regarding markdown syntax & formatting <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/</a><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/format" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#format</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

Dendrobatus Azureus<a href="https://mastodon.social/@eliasp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eliasp</a> Perl is a very nice language to program in<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/loops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#loops</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/named" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#named</a>

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