Harald Klinke · @HxxxKxxx
1254 followers · 583 posts · Server det.social

New study reveals linguistic divergence influenced by political polarization in the US via social media data. Findings highlight the potential for miscommunication as speech communities grow apart. This methodology can be applied globally.

arxiv.org/abs/2309.01659

#LanguageChange #politicalpolarization

Last updated 1 year ago

unrelatedwaffle · @unrelatedwaffle
285 followers · 460 posts · Server kolektiva.social

just saw the eggcorn "cache all" for "catchall"

#linguistics #phonetics #LanguageChange #eggcorns

Last updated 1 year ago

Stan Carey · @stancarey
1053 followers · 663 posts · Server mastodon.ie
Grammargeddon Angel · @GramrgednAngel
314 followers · 1744 posts · Server zirk.us

Amused by discussion of English needing a plural second-person pronoun.

YOU started out plural, y'know. THEE/THOU were second-person singular. Then . . . change happened. Now, YOU is both singular and plural second person. Context tells us which. Like it has throughout the last few centuries, when the change took place.

It amuses the hell outta me, honest.

#gummystuff #LanguageChange

Last updated 1 year ago

Chad Jordahl :mtdiablo: :oski: · @cjordahl
330 followers · 1348 posts · Server sfba.social

"Internecine" is today's Word-A-Day calendar word. The etymology has a surprising twist.

"Internecine comes from the Latin internecinus ("fought to the death" or "destructive")."

So far so good. But the interesting bit is how it got to mean *mutual* destruction, or internal group conflict...

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#language #english #LanguageChange #etymology

Last updated 2 years ago

Roberta D’Alessandro · @robertadal
135 followers · 15 posts · Server mastodon.uno

3 new articles on for today:
- Gibert-Sotelo&Marín, Spanish adjectival passives with a progressive reading, revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/arti
- Acedo-Matellán & Gibert-Sotelo, Revisiting -ej(ar) verbs in Catalan: Argument and event structure, revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/arti
- Escobar & Roy, Grammaticalization in the Evidential pathway of the Andean Spanish Present Perfect: Language as a trigger for , revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/arti

#LanguageChange #contact #rllt18 #Isogloss

Last updated 2 years ago

Matthias Hüning · @mhuening
112 followers · 37 posts · Server berlin.social

(since I am still new here): I am a linguist at Freie Universität Berlin, working on and other languages (, , , etc.). My focus is on and , mostly from a perspective. Also interested in and the relationship between language and society. and are central topics in our on at .

#introduction #dutch #Westgermanic #german #English #Afrikaans #plattdeutsch #morphology #LanguageChange #contrastive #sociolinguistics #StandardLanguageIdeology #prescriptivism #Graduiertenkolleg #normativity #FUBerlin

Last updated 2 years ago