A Look Back: Linguistics Headlines of 2016

The SpecGram Newshounds™

We must admit that 2016 was a rough year for everyone, with more downs than ups for most—and the world of linguistics was no exception. Honestly, it was just too much, so we took January off to let everyone recuperate. Now that we’ve recovered a bit, let’s take a look back at the most important and surprising headlines from 2016:

• Syntactician Gives Up Alcohol, Pronounces Himself an Ex-Bar Linguist

• Rich Typologist Buys Verbs Referring to Transactions, Insists “Money is No Object”

• Linguistics Department Sees Office Space Doubled. Profs to Get 1m² Offices!

• Man Hospitalized After Generative Grammar Overdose

• Shocking Video! Trump Admits to “Grabbing Words by the Punctuation”

• New Study Concludes that Esperanto is Just French and Spanish Mashed Together with More Arrogance and Less Paella

• Man Bites Dog... In Futile Attempt to Pronounce Klingon

• Exclusive: Clinton Email Servers Included Corpus Linguistics Data

• Course in Dadaist Linguistics Opens: Giraffe Sinks Battleship with Hairdryer

• Newlywed Khoisan Linguists Reveal: “We Just Clicked!”

And finally, the headline that sums up our feelings about the whole stinking year:

• Field Linguist Returns Home, Reads News, Decides to Go Back to Field Site

Brace yourselves for 2017—there are still eleven months to go!

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