Since I mentioned my background conlanging project on Twitter recently, I thought I’d sketch out what I was […]
linguistics
The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis and claims about languages influencing thought are old and widely regarded as falsified. And I […]
This one isn’t a long one, but I found an interesting case of active vowel disharmony in Nora […]
I recently acquired a copy of Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology, partly because it was relatively cheap on Amazon, […]
It’s not so easy to find good books about Amazonian languages, but there are a number of interesting […]
I’ve been reading Lynda Boudreault’s A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca, and the behaviour of glottal stops is both […]
Yesterday I was looking for examples of synchronic processes (e.g. vowel epenthesis) driven by a clear and simple […]
Recently, I’ve been hunting for a good overview of Algonquian finals and their semantics. It’s easy to find […]
I’ve been thinking recently about agreement patterns, and I think there’s an interesting one at the intersection of […]
Since Twitter is currently struggling with the conundrum of how to assign gender to inanimate objects, I thought […]
Chris in the Weeds 