Adam An

@adamanlx

PhD student in linguistics at the University of Kansas. Morphosyntax, variation, change, revitalization. he/him

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Adam An@adamanlx· 10d

1 2 3 viva l'Algérie!!!

Adam An@adamanlx· 28d

Gyri and sulci? More like GRAPi and STRAWBERRi

A fruit platter. Halved strawberries are arranged in the outline of a brain. The empty space inside the outline is filled with purple grapes.

Adam An@adamanlx· May 24

This Burmese tea leaf salad was one of the best things I've had recently. Side of chicken curry puffs, also delightful

Tea leaf salad with cabbage, cherry tomatoes, deep fried beans, and peanuts served with rice. Next to it are two semicircular curry puffs with some dipping sauce.

Adam An@adamanlx· Apr 20

A Dark Souls screenshot with victory message "STELLA CALLED"

Adam An@adamanlx· Mar 27

CHILDES has only the languages that matter.

Finno-Ugric
French
Japanese
Scandinavian
Spanish
Other - 2
Frogs

Adam An@adamanlx· Mar 26

Kalinti for colloquy

Chunks of chickpea pie sitting on chunks of baguette

Adam An@adamanlx· Mar 13

Graded

My hand next to a red pen. Red ink got all over my hand.

Adam An@adamanlx· Jan 21

My research

YouTube comment that says "This is like remixing every beautiful dessert flavor into one to see if the new creation is sweeter"

Adam An@adamanlx· Jan 5

Pressure's on.

In the background is a browser tab showing "2026 LSA Presentation." Overlaid on top of the tab is another browser window with a 20 minute timer.

Adam An@adamanlx· Jan 5

Here's the first PRETTY sunrise of the new year. Sorry January 1st. January 4th chewed you up.

A photo taken from up high; buildings and roads are seen below the horizon line. The sun has just begun to rise, coloring the clouds in gradients of orange, red, lavender, and blue.

The orange of the sunrise is visible behind some trees against a pale gray sky.

A photo taken from the ground with a road lining the bottom of the image. The sunrise is yellow in the middle and illuminating the clouds in a soft peachy color against a dark blue sky.

A picture of a building lit up by the sunrise. The sun is reflected in the windows, turning them a vivid orange.

Adam An@adamanlx· Jan 1

Good morning 2026!

A view of a cloudy morning overlooking buildings on a hill.

Adam An@adamanlx· Dec 31

Goodbye 2025!

A sunset from a high vantage point. The sun is illuminating the sides of various buildings on a hill.

Adam An@adamanlx· Dec 9

Oh wow! I missed it at first blush but there it is! 🤩

Adam An@adamanlx· Dec 8

FINALLY got this picture sent to me

Me wearing a sun hat, sunglasses, and an apron while eating a hot dog and holding a red Solo cup with a cocktail umbrella in it.

Adam An@adamanlx· Dec 5

Semester 3 was 3 and 13/32 pounds.

A binder full of papers on a postal scale measuring 3 and 13/32 pounds.

Adam An@adamanlx· Dec 5

School's out!

Hot dogs, potato chips, and assorted snacks. There's a toaster oven and an air fryer. Hot dog buns are visible in the toaster oven.

Assorted drinks and red Solo cups with little cocktail umbrellas in them.

A room decorated with streamers hanging from the ceiling.

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 21

What? FLOWCHART is evolving!

A flowchart labeled "flowchart 2.0". The first decision is intransitive (SV) or transitive (SVO). Under intransitive (SV) is unaccusative or unergative. Under transitive (SVO) is object ≠ sentence ("normal transitive") or obj. = sentence; under the latter of the two is raising or control.

Under each final option in the flowchart lie columns of a table, the rows of which are "voice?" "complement of v..." and "subject comes from..."

Under unaccusative, there is no voice, the complement of V is "DP that becomes subject by moving to specifier of TP", and the subject comes from "complement of V / right of V".

Under unergative, there is voice, the complement of V is "none 🙂", and the subject comes from "specifier of VoiceP / left of Voice".

Under "normal transitive", there is voice, the complement of V is "DP or PP", and the subject comes from "specifier of VoiceP / left of Voice".

Under raising, there is no voice, the complement of V is TP, and the subject comes from somewhere in the second sentence.

Under control, there is voice, the complement of V is "CP with big PRO as subject", and the subject comes from "specifier of VoiceP / left of VoiceP".

Alongside the flowchart are three extra notes:

"Subjects and wh-words need to be moved before starting to draw!"

"Silent C goes AFTER wh-words in S-structure"

"Auxiliaries go above / left of Voice and/or main V; place subj. w/ main verb"

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 20

🍄🍄‍🟫

A colloquy spread with mushroom-themed cookies and cupcakes.

A closer look at the mushroom confections. There is a cupcake with red icing with white dots. There is also a chocolate thumbprint cookie with a marshmallow affixed to it.

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 18

This kaya (coconut jam) is the best thing I've ever made for colloquy. Like out of all the things I've made, this is the one I'm making again so I don't have to share.

A snack spread with bread, kaya, and various other snacks.

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 15

Non Chinese people are disproportionately amazed by these green beans. Like you know we have better stuff right?

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 14

I'm dumb transitive should say SVO

The same tree from above but now transitive says SVO

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 14

Cooked pretty hard with this one.

A decision tree. The top level decision is intransitive (SV) or transitive (SVO). Under intransitive is unaccusative (do tests) or unergative (do tests). Under transitive is object ≠ sentence or object = sentence; if object = sentence an additional arrow says to return to the top of the tree for the inside sentence. Under object = sentence is raising (do tests) or control (do tests).

There are four results. The first is (outer) subject comes from comp. of V, no Voice, which results from unaccusative and raising. The second is (outer) subject comes from spec. of VoiceP, which results from unergative, object ≠ sentence, and control. The third is inside sentence has no CP, which comes from raising. The fourth is inside sentence subject is PRO, which comes from control.

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 11

I presented at #NWAV53! An honor to present work coauthored with Jean Paul Ngoboka. Materials available at theycallmezeal.me/publications

Me with my poster. It is called "How do we evaluate what we don't know?"

Me presenting. The slide reads "What are the surface distributions of these forms?" I am describing "negated ra-" but "negated" is crossed out. Under it is written "most instances are expected and socially unmeaningful / only a few instances are unusual." I am comparing it to "g-" which is "always unusual."

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 8

I want to throw something into the top one and it comes out the bottom one.

An abstract art piece hanging in a building. It is a 3d sculpture made of purple and white horn-like shapes connected with tubes.

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 7

The session chair held up that 2 minutes left sign and I literally heard Running In The 90s start playing in my head #NWAV53

A frog power sprinting and making plap plap plap noises

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 4

Raising or control? More like RAISIN or CEREAL

Adam An@adamanlx· Nov 1

Happy Halloween I am a Philadelphian bottle of Life Water

A bottle of Life Water. The label has greens, blues, purples, and pinks. There is a black cap.

Me dressed in greens, blues, purples, and pinks with a black cap on. I'm wearing a label that says "Life Wooder".

Adam An@adamanlx· Oct 31

Happy Halloween I am an AI slop syntax tree

An AI slop syntax tree that is completely incoherent with garbled text. There are puppies wearing ties scattered around the tree for some reason.

I'm wearing dog ears, a tie, and garbled constituents from the tree.

Adam An@adamanlx· Oct 30

Today for Halloween I am the bunny from the head turn experiment

Me in a pink shirt with bunny ears and a plastic tub I'm banging on like a drum with a ladle

Adam An@adamanlx· Oct 24

Today's colloquy spread shouldn't have worked. But it worked.