I do a fair amount of flying*, and one of the phrases I hear fairly often at around 10,000 ft is “the use of approved electronic devices are now permitted”. Now, this is totally ungrammatical to me, even after more than 100 hearings in the last 18 months. I speak a dialect of English that [...]
Time for a roundup of what I’ve been reading.
I bought the Crowley and Bright Gedenkschriften at the LSA (both published by John Benjamins). They both have a nice collection of papers and in the first case at least I’m sure the honorand would have been delighted. The first is an eclectic collection of super papers, [...]
It’s been a while since I posted an update.
Linda finished typing the texts before the break. I am continuing to annotate and proof-read.
I have requested permission from One Arm Point Council to spend nearly 2 months there this year to do fieldwork around the stories. If the application is approved, I’ll be there in [...]
I’m at UT Austin at the moment, I gave a talk in their linguistics colloquium series yesterday on Australian historical linguistics. I’m a terrible book snoop and since I’m in their departmenal library at the moment I thought I’d like a look at their Australian holdings. Most of the books are in the main library [...]
The Latin discussion over at Matjjin-nehen reminded me of a post I started about 6 months ago and didn’t finished. I’d been drooling over Condrad Gesner’s de differentiis linguarum. It’s well worth learning Latin if you can’t read it in order to read this book. It’s a kind of late mediaeval Ethnologue, with information on [...]
I’m not really one of memes, unless they’re of the genetic variety, but Jangari tagged me so here goes. (By the way, speaking of Jangari, anyone know if matha ‘language’ in Yolŋu is likly to be cognate with matjjin?) The meme is ‘good blog writing tips’.
Be a bit careful what you write about. This is [...]
Just a reminder that applications to Rice linguistics’ graduate program close on Feb 1st. If you are interested in applying to our program in general, or for my Pama-Nyungan position in particular, you can apply through rgs.rice.edu. Feel free to email if you have questions, of course.
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