Gen Z Constructions.

From the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project comes Gen Z constructions: an overview: The goal of this page is to provide a brief, preliminary description of some Gen Z constructions that YGDP researchers are currently investigating. The judgments on this page are mostly from the respective researchers’ own intuition; little to no data has been formally collected as of yet. The YGDP hopes to continue working on these constructions to eventually understand them better and publish individual phenomenon pages for each one. So far, they’ve got discussions of It’s giving (“It’s giving librarian”), Lonely transitives (“I have an apple. Do you want?”), Response particle bet (“Speaker A: I just ordered us a pizza. Speaker B: Bet.”), and Spotlight not (“Not me going to Starbucks for the second time today”). This is the kind of thing more linguistics departments should be doing.