Just tried the CLAD's (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar) Wolof < > French translation tool, #FirilMa: cladfirilma.ucad.sn. Works great 👍

Paris friends! Excited to speak here soon. I'll present data on negation in Gizey, and discuss the intriguing behaviour of a negative existential that is attested across the Northern Masa languages. Hope to see you there!

Join us if you can...🫣

Watched Hind Meddeb’s “Sudan, remember us” yesterday and strongly recommend it (if you haven’t seen it). Love how it captures poetry in the midst of absurd brutality.

Love this!! gillianramchand.blog/2025/08/07/n...

For London-area academics: our 3rd colloq in linguistics and philosophy.

Cool read this morning: "Ideophonic sequences: Challenging the asymmetric syntactic structure hypothesis" in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. Two main questions: 1) Do ideophone sequences function as constituents, and) 2 Do they have flat or hierarchical structure? doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Our faculty is holding an online Graduate Open Day via Teams on 25th September, 1-2pm (British Summer Time); an opportunity to ask questions about the Linguistics graduate courses on offer at Oxford and the admissions process. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Martina Wiltschko hits the nail on the head in her analysis of why Trump’s lies feel worse than just lies: ‘the truth is being hijacked’ - read more on Trump, truth, and territory of information here: medium.com/brain-labs/r...

The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳 journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau... Pic. by Henry Tourneux

New paper "The nominal morphology of Gizey". Bonne lecture 😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Today I gave my first-ever presentation at the yearly Colloquium on African Languages and #Linguistics. My question to the Africanists, Afroasiaticists, Cushiticists: why do we think #Cushitic is a thing? 1/14

Should PhD students drink more?🤔 This essay examines the declining alcohol consumption among PhD students and its implications for academic social life. 🍻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

If #Oga (I hope your Naijá is good) reviewer says they “laughed out loud” and wishes “more journal articles made us laugh like that,” then you definitely want to read my ideophone paper, don’t you? 😁 It’s here, open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental

When the war broke out, I fled. But stayed in touch with some students. Today, one, Zadolf, has become a software engineer. Between classes at the uni, he converts dictionaries compiled by Tonino into mobile apps. The first one is on PlayStore. Just another app? No, a major achievement. 👏

Are you afraid of tone languages? We created a video to help you with hearing and transcribing tone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqrl...

ULB is a great place! Specialist in Romance linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax) with particular skills in Italian and Spanish linguistics. A comparative and applied approach is required. www.ulb.be/fr/vacances-...

We invite interested speakers to submit abstracts for a panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber and Chadic, to be held at the upcoming Afrikanist*innentag from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Vienna. This panel aims to bring together experts to share insights and advancements on this topic.