Heather Littlefield Associate Academic Specialist in Linguistics, Assistant Director and Head Advisor of Linguistics h.littlefield@neu.edu 617.373.3164 Expertise acquisition of syntactic categories in first language acquisition, syntactic distinction of lexical and functional categories, syntax of African languages Heather Littlefield for Northeastern Global News 3Qs: What using the name ‘Daesh,’ rather than ‘ISIS’ or ‘ISIL,’ really means 3Qs: What using the name ‘Daesh,’ rather than ‘ISIS’ or ‘ISIL,’ really means Three faculty members—Jonathan Kaufman, director of the School of Journalism, Shakir Mustafa, teaching professor of Arabic, and Heather Littlefield, associate teaching professor in linguistics—explain the differences among the names ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh and why they matter. 3Qs: The evolution of profanity 3Qs: The evolution of profanity Instead of saying “Pardon my French” when we curse, we should be saying, “Pardon my Old English,” says Heather Littlefield, head advisor of the linguistics program at Northeastern. 3Qs: Not your mother’s neologisms 3Qs: Not your mother’s neologisms “Lolz,” “photobombing” and “mwahahaha” have recently been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online, prompting a discussion of our modern taste for digital jargon.