Hey, lookit that, I’m listed on the WSCLA program! Gonna give my talk, let’s see, three weeks from yesterday. Ok, only hyperventilating a little bit when I think about that… Anyway, if you see a lot of random pictures/poems/videos here over the next two weeks, instead of the usual lengthy (but equally random) political nattering, [...]
Having spent the last five years in graduate school, it should be apparent that I have some commitment to an academic path. But at the same time, I’ve been somewhat ambivalent about the whole endeavor. Although I’ve done some work that I’m proud of, I haven’t done the kind of full-court press to speak at [...]
It’s all Telugu to me: You’re familiar with the expression “It’s all Greek to me” for something that you can’t make heads or tails of (unless you’re British, apparently, in which case you may say “It’s Double Dutch to me” instead). If you’re conversant in other languages, you probably also know that there each language [...]
Just got an email telling me that my abstract was accepted for the second of two conferences to which I submitted. Now I just need to flesh out my paper and prepare a talk, then I’ll be off to Purdue! Say … where is Purdue? Pennsylvania or something, right? *checks the google* Huh, Indiana. Ok [...]
Well, folks, it’s come to this: That’s not a typo–that’s policy: From now on, no sign produced by Birmingham City Council will contain the punctuation mark. Debates over whether Kings Norton really should be King’s – or even Kings’ – Norton may rage on, but they will be useless. And nearby Druids Heath [...]
Gah, I think this prospectus is finally almost done.
Glad this week is winding down. I ended up not being summoned for jury duty, which is a shame — I really like doing jury duty, actually. But that left me more time to work on my abstract yesterday for WAIL (that’s the unfortunately-acronymed Workshop on American Indigenous Languages), which I submitted yesterday. Notification of [...]
Have you ever wondered what exactly it is that a linguist works on from day to day? Probably not, I’ll grant. But in case you have, here you can see one of the diagrams that I’ve spent a good deal of time working on for the last week or two: What this is, is a [...]
Yes, still alive. Been actually working this last week, oddly enough. Making steady progress with Chumash, which will hopefully pan out into (?) a useful and substantial topic that I can write on. Meanwhile, we seem to be adopting one of the neighborhood cats. I’m not sure when that process is actually complete — what’s [...]
