About as pithy a summary as you are going to get of how social affairs work and evolve, from @DanLittle https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-diachronic-social.html
Is anyone else on here also at the #ThirdAMC meeting this week?
https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/third-amc-symposium-2022/
#historical #linguistics #phonetics #phonology #syntax #diachronic #sociolinguistics #variation #change
#change #variation #sociolinguistics #diachronic #syntax #phonology #phonetics #linguistics #historical #thirdamc
Ghost in the Shell. Look closely at my top shelf, just behind the Pocket Monsters box of pencils ...
https://mastodon.nz/@romanalanwrites/109307618245960215
As for identity, my take is:
I am but a collection of drifting stars, like motes in infinity, and others see various constellations from whatever point of view they have of me.
After a very long process, my former student Clayton Marr (no realationship to Nikolay Marr) and I have published a new #histling paper in #diachronica on the use of large-scale #forward #reconstruction to discover previously neglected patterns of #sound #change (in this case, in #French).
https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.20027.mar
Regrettably, we couldn't make it open access but I would be happy to share an offprint.
#historical #linguistics #diachronic #Latin
#histling #diachronica #forward #reconstruction #sound #change #french #historical #linguistics #diachronic #latin
As time passes and language evolves I wonder if (assuming we can mitigate further climate change) future generations will say musk it up instead of muck it up. #idiom #diachronic #SemanticShift
#idiom #diachronic #semanticshift
E. Ko (2022) "On the origins of multiple #exponence in #Crow" in Diachronica.
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.22003.ko
#linguistics #morphology #diachronic #historical #grammaticalization #futurity #modality #AnalogicalExtension #Siouan #MultipleExponence
#exponence #crow #linguistics #morphology #diachronic #historical #grammaticalization #futurity #modality #analogicalextension #siouan #multipleexponence
Articles. Definitely.
https://www.facebook.com/1430991747/posts/10218464507150564/?flite=scwspnss&mibextid=wB00AFLHs6QS5UjT
#diachronic #linguistics