And in fact, I have also incorporated the perspective of Evaluative Morphology (esp. in terms of ‘qualitative evaluation’; see also Dobrushina 2024) to explain the peculiarity exhibited by the cxns in question in Toda Seediq (Formosan; Austronesian).
You can find the Academia.edu link of the paper below (I’ve also posted on ResearchGate, but somehow I can’t find the link to share)
www.academia.edu/164490718/On...
Alright everyone, a very humble but first ever proceeding paper of mine, where I discuss the typologically overlooked type of cxns that I refer to as ‘evaluative complex predicates’ in Toda Seediq.
Its clausal-linkage type is unusual, but I propose that RRG may deal with it.
A book I wished I had found in the first month of my PhD and not in the last: Toulmin (2009), From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction
Chap 3 is a superb discussion of reconstruction and subgrouping in dialect continua (aka everywhere) 1/3
openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/c30644...
Bernd Kortmann's adverbial-subordinator data from his 1997 book are now part of the CrossGram database: all 2063 adverbial subordinators from 52 European languages (crossgram.clld.org/contribution...) plus 32 core meanings treated as language parameters + maps (crossgram.clld.org/contribution...)
Bonmann, Riesberg and Himmelmann (2025) on DOM in Western Malayo-Polynesian (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2024-0002/html) – the dataset is now available in CrossGram: crossgram.clld.org/contribution...
It just makes me feel a bit uncomfortable to do re-submission of conference abstract through Google Forms or Gmail. How is the conference committee gonna handle that?
Actually I prefer EasyAbs, sadly it seems to have gone wrong…
Me today: take a look at the spam section in case I have miss any important email, only to find two predatory journals asking me to join the editor board and submitting my paper to them respectively.
New paper (open access): revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/art...
I meant LinkedIn is truly undesirable for me…
Coming back to Bluesky because of finding this post on X lol
It was a great honor to act as the promotor (together with Prof Gijsbert Rutten) at the PhD defence by Kefan Bao: Language policy and planning of Amazigh languages in Morocco.
Congratulations to Kefan on a great piece of work!
scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/...
Quite a few young enthusiasts or linguistics to be like me are fascinated with these beautiful languages.
Therefore, I hope that in the future we can still maintain this research enterprise in AD and continue to make it thrive. /END
The reason that I emphasize ‘TB languages’ is because this has been one of the Institute’s long research traditions since Hwang-Cherng Gong.
And in fact, currently few people have been working on TB langs in Taiwan, but actually… /1
The Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica is looking for a tenure(d/-track) position right now.
And, out of personal wish, if you specialize in Tibeto-Burman languages and want to experience life in Taiwan, this is a great opportunity!
The 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing will be held from November 7th to 9th at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei!
Languages of the World by Asya Pereltsvaig
www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
Coming back here every once in a while, trying to see if the linguistics circle has been thriving here or not.
We accepted "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
I have the same Q as well. Even though the use of the term may have declined a lot during these decades, some people are still following the descriptive approach, and specify that their major discipline is descriptive linguistics.
*negative ones
Seriously, I hate being defined by others’ stereotypes
It just keeps making me frustrated to constantly received irrational voices from all over the world. Now I just want to find somewhere tranquil to look for some inner peace.
Does linguistics “bluesky” thrive here?
Don’t know how the algorithm here works. It seems that one must post regularly on both X and Facebook to get higher exposure.
In my new paper, I take stock of cross-linguistically common functions and expressions of counterfactuality.
You can download it here, or contact me.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
A screenshot of the abstract of the paper “Non-core case marking in Batanic languages” by CJ Young, with keywords, DOI, and publication information.
My first ever journal paper! Terrified but so excited to see it in print. This is for the underdogs: Batanic langs & oblique case. Turns out the oblique does more and the locative does less than we think! Happy to bring Batanic to the fore of Austronesian linguistics! doi.org/10.1515/stuf...
(DM 📄)
In my poster, I will attempt to argue the ‘cross-domain’ (e.g. IE languages) vs. ‘domain-specific’ (e.g. Atayalic languages) distinction on the general functions of modals in a language (cf. Cheng 2013) is worth examining cross-linguistically.
This contrasts with modals in IE languages, which are well-known for their functions of denoting more than one type of modality in different contexts.
