Ich freue mich, dass mein Vortrag zu Sprachwandel in den vergangenen 60 Jahren es in den Deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal geschafft hat. Viel Spaß! www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/deut...

In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

Look at my baby! ☺️ I reedited Modole folk stories published 110 years ago Old journals and archives are full of story collections in underdocumented languages, often difficult or impossible to access for both linguists and the speaker community. Using legacy material is valuable and sustainable 🙌🏻

Since the beginning of my PhD I've typed the word "sultanate" at least once a day and I'm happy to inform you that I still manage to misspell it every single time 😊 #sultnate #sultante #sultenete

Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?

how to degrade your fellow historical linguist in the most polite way possible

#HappyBirthdayTolkien On this occation: My paper about time-space metaphor in Tolkien's writings is now open access. #Tolkien regarded English time-space reference as 'confused' since it uses the same words to refer to future and past 1/3 journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/arti...

Today, my etymological doublet series is coming to an end with an episode on German, on request of several people. The orange German words on the right have the same origin as the blue ones on the right, but they took a very different path. Many of the examples are courtesy of Matthieu Pierens.

#TIL Balantak (Austronesian, spoken in Sulawesi, Indonesia) has a circumfix "poo-...-(i)kon" meaning 'less than ideal' E.g. "tatapi" 'wash' : "mom-poo-tatapi-kon" 'to wash as best as one can (given less than ideal circumstances such as little water and no soap)' Find me poo-thesis.writing-kon

bitte hört auf welche/welcher/welches als relatibpronomen zu nutzen ich flehe euch an

Paint-by-number Philippine languages edition when commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KW...

This post is sponsored by the HR lady who told me to simply put "what I did" in my CV

Academic CV: reconstructed a proto-language Industry CV: reverse engineered training data for natural language acquisition

Sollen...ankommen...werden Ist das für euch grammatisch? 🤔🤔

Das ruft bei mir die Erinnerung wach, als ein Dude zu mir meinte, Linguisten sollten sich mal echte Sprachen angucken

Die Trennung Ge-schnet-zeltes ist anders wild 🫨 Historical linguists of the future: take notes!

Call center cat at work in Amsterdam @catworkers.bsky.social

Does anyone know of any good overviews of how the world's languages use coordination (parataxis) and subordination (hypotaxis)? I'm curious about common patterns, including with impersonal verbs and the different sorts of things that get grammaticalized. #LangSky

I discovered the most liquid Lautwandel* ever!!** *Lautwandel = German for 'sound change' ** laut = Indonesian for 'sea'

Falls ihr ein bisschen Geld über habt: ein lieber Freund von mir steht nach langer Krankheit vor einem riesen Schuldenberg gofund.me/9d45f3cac

Ngigoro traveled from Halmahera Island, Indonesia, to Paris to warn us: “Stop the mining or my people will die.” @survivalfr.bsky.social mobilized outside Eramet’s HQ, as the company keeps ignoring our warnings about them destroying Ngigoro's people's rainforest. Act now: svlint.org/SurvivalB

Dutch "gebeuren" 'happen' is cognate to German "gebühren" 'sb/sth deserves/is due sth'. The unprefixed verb "beuren" 'to lift' is still used in Dutch. #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀 ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

Dutch "aarzelen" 'to hesitste, waver' is derived from "aars" 'arse', German "Arsch". It was formed based on French "reculer" 'move backwards' from "cul" 'arse'. English "arsle" is cognate. Sadly, the German cognate *arschelen (or *ärschelen?) is not used. #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

Ich denke als historische Linguist*innen ist es unsere Pflicht, die Etymologie von "Talahon" auf Tontafeln zu verewigen. Ansonsten seh ich etwas schwarz für unsere Nachfolger*innen 🙏🏻

Ich suche den Locus classicus zum Konzept von Dialekten als "geronnene Sprachgeschichte" (neben Neuerungen erhalten Dialekte auch Archaismen der Sprache). Wichtig die Metapher "geronnen". Hat das z. B. Theodor Frings irgendwo entwickelt? Über eine einschlägige Literaturangabe würde ich mich freuen!

T-online beglückt uns mit dem neuesten schwerste-Sprache-Ranking 🙃 Ich schlage ein Spiel vor: ich poste Screenshots im Thread und ihr ratet, um welche Sprache es jeweils geht 1/5 www.t-online.de/leben/alltag...

expanding brain meme but make it a journal mentaljournal-jspu.uz/index.php/me...

I’d probably still enjoy talking about linguistics with non linguists if not every single one of those conversations led to them throwing questions at me that can only be answered with “No, that’s a misconception” (plus I always run out of polite replies way too quickly)

Turns out there is a North Halmaheran (Pagu) version of Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (aka Indonesian Cinderella) 😱 Of course it features a crocodile 🐊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawang_...

I just overheard someone speaking French but all exclamations and interjections were English and all question words Levantine Arabic

This 👇🏻 sometimes I talk to PhDs whose whole project needed as much data processing as I did for just one subsection

Die "Reckless"-Reihe von Cornelia Funke erfährt übrigens Aufwertung, wenn man beim Lesen dauerhaft im Hinterkopf behält, dass quasi alle Charaktere österreichisches Deutsch sprechen 🇦🇹 #gehtsichschonaus

Dutch "betogen" 'demonstrate, produce proof' is NOT cognate to German "bezeugen" 'testify'. "Betogen" is probably derived from the same root as "oog" 'eye'. German "beäugen" 'to eye' is a similar formation but not a direct cognate. 1/2 #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

Dutch, German and English all use a derivation of a form meaning 'bite' to mean 'a little bit'. And they are all etymologically related: Dutch "beetje" < "beet", German "bisschen" < "Biss", and English "bit" (compare "bite") 1/2 #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

First and last sightseeing advice on this account: If you come to Amsterdam and like the style of Central Station and Rijksmuseum, the same architect rebuilt a castle near Utrecht: Kasteel de Haar (~1.5h from Amsterdam) It's a perfect combination of Neo-Gothic and fake medieval elements

PhD life (wood)

One thing Dutch thing I'll definitely won't miss is that loud sniffing and snuffling for hours is more accepted than blowing your nose once 🤧

ich backte du bukst sie backtierte

So apparently, the US Gov, in their most recent series of dog whistles, are pulling LOTR references and are outright saying that their fascist reign of terror is akin to protecting the Shire. Absolutely fucking not. The comparison is a straightforward dogwhistle, don't let them confuse you.

Dutch "trots" 'pride' is borrowed from German "Trotz" 'defiance'. "trots" in Dutch is both a noun and an adjective. The adjective is likely derived from now outdated "trotsig" 'proud', itself a borrowing of German "trotzig" 'defiant, stubborn'. #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

Short reminder that "uncontacted peoples" means peoples who have come into contact with the outside world and decided they are better off without it example in next post www.uncontactedpeoples.org

I encountered the Dutch version of the Spiderman pointing meme today "oversteken" = 'to cross'

Is anyone here aware of *diachronic* studies of contrastive focus reduplication in West Germanic (English, Dutch, German...), e.g. "salad-salad", "Freund-Freund", etc.? Has someone claimed it's parallel development or calquing?

Is anyone here aware of *diachronic* studies of contrastive focus reduplication in West Germanic (English, Dutch, German...), e.g. "salad-salad", "Freund-Freund", etc.? Has someone claimed it's parallel development or calquing?

Dutch "blij" 'happy, glad' is cognate to English "blithe". No German cognates are in use today but Pfeifer proposes a connection to German "Blei" 'lead (element)'. Both Old High German "blīo" 'lead' and "blīdi" 'happy, shiny' may be derived from a root meaning 'shine' #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

A high fantasy novel but whenever someone says "it has been told that...", "according to an old prophecy..." or "people say that..." the following piece of information is entirely fabricated or just wrong

Questions for the Romanicists here: If a Portuguese writer of the 16th century says that two languages are "as different as Portuguese and Castilian", what does it imply?

Dutch "loeren" 'to lurk' is cognate to German "lauern" 'to lurk' and English "lour". In Cologne you will still hear "luur ens" 'have a look' #LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

One of the unexpected positive side effects of being a linguist is that after glossing this Galela text I'm now capable of building a compost (In case you are interested: www.sil.org/resources/ar...)