Onno Hovers (ms., 2021), "The Two Short O’s of Indo‑European"
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Onno Hovers (ms., 2021), "The Two Short O’s of Indo‑European"
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In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism
#datatools #studytools #academicsky
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Then let's focus on the grant you got. Congrats and enjoy it!
In the end, this is what happens most of the time, so cheer up! By the way, my application for a grant to write a historical grammar was once denied 'cos one of the reviewers thought that my goal is to write a synchronic grammar (so, yep, the reviewer didn't even bother to read the project).😉
Mood today
If you're new to Transkribus and transcribing with AI, then check out this recording of our webinar on using public AI models 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNL...
Reposting this again for good measure. What a great, freely downloadable volume.
"The Secret Vow to the Goddess"
We congratulate Dr Alaka Chudal (@istb-univienna.bsky.social) and Dr Jessica Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University) who have completed the first English translation of the Svasthānīvratakathā, a vital part of Nepali religious life.
📸: Nepali News/J. Birkenholtz
Don't believe everything you read online. A fake news report that "lost" works of Apollonius of Perga have been newly discovered in Arabic. Actually they were discovered in the 17th century and published again in 1990.
#AncientBluesky
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#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
Do I know anyone here in the biomed fields, esp. pharmacy or biotech, willing to speak to me about scholarships/funding opportunities for a Master’s in the field in Europe or North America? This is for a Syrian acquaintance who’s just finished her undergrad in this area and looking to get ...
How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes theconversation.com/...
India’s linguistic diversity shines | In conversation with Guillaume Jacques
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None that I can recall, but I'm sure that for some, Doom is a marvellous thing too.
You may be very young for this, but there's a computer video game called "Loom", what a marvellous thing...
🗃️ In the first part of three articles, Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong explores how to use NDLJP's digital collections to reconstruct the biographies of little known historical figures 📜 🏺 ⛩️ #digitalhumanities #history #historicalfigures #Japan #coding #academicsky
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I agree with this 100%. And would add "classification" to that list
Be as it may, I do really hope people understand that historical linguistics isn't just "homelands", "proto-languages" or something that only "works" with Indo-European languages.
yes, this aligns very well with the bibliography that he's recommending (Demoule, etc.).
It is shocking to find out that Demoule has such an influence.
I'm afraid that some of the views expressed in *the* thread cannot be alleviated by referring to a handbook of historical linguistics. This goes deeper, beyond the "soft" vs "hard" thing.
"oh boy", that's a way of putting it.
My reply was a response to the statement that "it might as well not exist". I didn't comment on the actual use of the word.
Open access: “Chinese Euphonics: Phonological Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts” by Jeffrey R. Tharsen (Dec. ’24) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
It semantically makes sense, cf. Spanish decaer 'to wane, flag, diminish', etc.
If you liked "Putin's Palace": here's how Viktor Orbán’s family and childhood friend rule over an empire of luxury capitalism. The authors of the film are now facing fierce attacks in government media, including accusations of Ukrainian (!) funding. (EN subs!)
New book review out by me of:
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic. New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics 26 (2025), 213–222
preprint: www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...
Hey, Translators!
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
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If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
