David Erschler
@daviderschler.bsky.social
Linguist, Senior Lecturer at Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 🇮🇱
Syntax, Morphology, Typology, Languages of the Caucasus
Syntax, Morphology, Typology, Languages of the Caucasus
This is what casual antisemitism in Western academia looks like -- of two sides of the conflict, only one is deemed worthy of sympathy. (The answer to a direct question was of course along the lines "I wish peace to all the children, I haven't mentioned other conflicts either")
February 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is what casual antisemitism in Western academia looks like -- of two sides of the conflict, only one is deemed worthy of sympathy. (The answer to a direct question was of course along the lines "I wish peace to all the children, I haven't mentioned other conflicts either")
My paper about how to analyze the relationship between a depictive and its possible hosts (i.e. between "Tom," "David," and "drunk" in the sentence "Tom met David drunk") appeared in Masha Polinsky's Festschrift
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escholarship.org/uc/item/38w5...
Modification by depictives: In favor of a binding-based account
Author(s): Erschler, David | Abstract: In this paper, I use the properties of depictives in Digor and Iron Ossetic, two closely related Iranian languages of the Caucasus, to argue in favor of binding-...
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January 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My paper about how to analyze the relationship between a depictive and its possible hosts (i.e. between "Tom," "David," and "drunk" in the sentence "Tom met David drunk") appeared in Masha Polinsky's Festschrift
escholarship.org/uc/item/38w5...
escholarship.org/uc/item/38w5...
Abaza grammar in Abkhaz
January 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Abaza grammar in Abkhaz
TIL I learn that the Laz for Istanbul is p'oli, which apparently is just πόλις. (Cf. the old Iron Ossetic word for Tbilisi, Kalak = the Georgian kalak-i 'city')
January 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
TIL I learn that the Laz for Istanbul is p'oli, which apparently is just πόλις. (Cf. the old Iron Ossetic word for Tbilisi, Kalak = the Georgian kalak-i 'city')
Happy New Year! С Новым годом! გილოცავთ ახალ წელს! ხოჩა შოშხუ̂ა̈მ ჩი̅ს! მიგახვამანთ ახალ წანას! Нæуæг анзи хуарзæнхæ уæ уæд! Ног азы хорзæх уæ уæд! Շնորհավոր Նոր տարի՜ Guten Rutsch! Bonne année ! Gelukkig nieuwjaar! !נובי גוד שמח
December 31, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Happy New Year! С Новым годом! გილოცავთ ახალ წელს! ხოჩა შოშხუ̂ა̈მ ჩი̅ს! მიგახვამანთ ახალ წანას! Нæуæг анзи хуарзæнхæ уæ уæд! Ног азы хорзæх уæ уæд! Շնորհավոր Նոր տարի՜ Guten Rutsch! Bonne année ! Gelukkig nieuwjaar! !נובי גוד שמח
An almost final version of a paper about how in the course of history of Ossetic, focus movement gave rise to dedicated movement of negative indefinites. It's embarrassing to say when I gave the first talk on this topic...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...
On Development of the Negative Phrase in Ossetic - lingbuzz/008721
The Modern Ossetic languages exhibit a typologically uncommon pattern of negative concord – a combination of obligatory negative spread and obligatory movement of Neg-phrases into an immediately preve...
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December 30, 2024 at 3:47 PM
An almost final version of a paper about how in the course of history of Ossetic, focus movement gave rise to dedicated movement of negative indefinites. It's embarrassing to say when I gave the first talk on this topic...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...
Reposted by David Erschler
Found an occasionally formed Georgian verb form 'we had cake' ვტორტაობდით v-t'ort'-a-ob-di-t 1S-cake-?-VBZ-PST.IPF-PL, and realized that I can directly translate it with an (equally occasionally formed) Russian verb тортовничали tort-ov-nič-a-l-i
cake-?-nmz-vbz-pst-pl
cake-?-nmz-vbz-pst-pl
December 1, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Found an occasionally formed Georgian verb form 'we had cake' ვტორტაობდით v-t'ort'-a-ob-di-t 1S-cake-?-VBZ-PST.IPF-PL, and realized that I can directly translate it with an (equally occasionally formed) Russian verb тортовничали tort-ov-nič-a-l-i
cake-?-nmz-vbz-pst-pl
cake-?-nmz-vbz-pst-pl
In preparation to ALT 15 (next week in Singapore). Will certainly use "monkey-proof" as an incorporation example next time I teach morphology
November 29, 2024 at 7:53 AM
In preparation to ALT 15 (next week in Singapore). Will certainly use "monkey-proof" as an incorporation example next time I teach morphology
What would you recommend as introductory reading on restructuring to a (beginning) MA student?
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 PM
What would you recommend as introductory reading on restructuring to a (beginning) MA student?
The Georgian word of the day: the compound dark-green-cape-clad
muk-mt͡s’vane-mosasxam-mosxmul-i
muk-mt͡s’vane-mosasxam-mosxmul-i
November 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM
The Georgian word of the day: the compound dark-green-cape-clad
muk-mt͡s’vane-mosasxam-mosxmul-i
muk-mt͡s’vane-mosasxam-mosxmul-i
Word (again) managed to activate the autocorrect, which disapproves of Svan morphophonology
November 20, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Word (again) managed to activate the autocorrect, which disapproves of Svan morphophonology
We (that is, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, BGU) are hiring a TT faculty!
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LINGUIST List 35.3237 Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax: Tenure Track Faculty, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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November 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
We (that is, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, BGU) are hiring a TT faculty!
linguistlist.org/issues/35-32...
linguistlist.org/issues/35-32...
My paper on emphatic negation in Colloquial Russian is finally out in the Journal of Slavic Linguistics (open access). I guess not many can boast of a paper that has the word 'dick' right in the abstract
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March 3, 2024 at 9:19 AM
My paper on emphatic negation in Colloquial Russian is finally out in the Journal of Slavic Linguistics (open access). I guess not many can boast of a paper that has the word 'dick' right in the abstract
ojs.ung.si/index.php/JS...
ojs.ung.si/index.php/JS...
Got tenure and promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer
January 2, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Got tenure and promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer
Am I right to assume that no literature exists about how the knowledge of generative syntax is useful in TOESL?
January 1, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Am I right to assume that no literature exists about how the knowledge of generative syntax is useful in TOESL?
Reposted by David Erschler
Do people constantly try to kill you and your family? Is there a very realistic chance you'll be murdered this week? Did someone kill or raped your friends recently? If the answer is NO and you nevertheless blame those who answer YES, you reached Master Gasligher level
October 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM
Do people constantly try to kill you and your family? Is there a very realistic chance you'll be murdered this week? Did someone kill or raped your friends recently? If the answer is NO and you nevertheless blame those who answer YES, you reached Master Gasligher level
Today's achievement -- a missile warning siren caught me in an office, which coincidentally was a missile shelter itself, so I could just stay put. (From my own office, I have to go to a staircase to shelter)
October 24, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Today's achievement -- a missile warning siren caught me in an office, which coincidentally was a missile shelter itself, so I could just stay put. (From my own office, I have to go to a staircase to shelter)
"Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is stricken with grief and mourning at the death of
Yasmin Zohar (Livneh) from the Education Department; her husband Yaniv Zohar, her father Haim Livneh, and her daughters Keshet and Tchelet Zohar,
who were murdered in an encounter with terrorists" 1/2
Yasmin Zohar (Livneh) from the Education Department; her husband Yaniv Zohar, her father Haim Livneh, and her daughters Keshet and Tchelet Zohar,
who were murdered in an encounter with terrorists" 1/2
October 10, 2023 at 11:29 AM
"Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is stricken with grief and mourning at the death of
Yasmin Zohar (Livneh) from the Education Department; her husband Yaniv Zohar, her father Haim Livneh, and her daughters Keshet and Tchelet Zohar,
who were murdered in an encounter with terrorists" 1/2
Yasmin Zohar (Livneh) from the Education Department; her husband Yaniv Zohar, her father Haim Livneh, and her daughters Keshet and Tchelet Zohar,
who were murdered in an encounter with terrorists" 1/2
A possibly unpopular opinion (reviewing abstracts for a certain Very Prestigious Conference):
Authors: Spend a f*ckton of time to condense their ideas in a 2 page abstract
Me: Spends a f*ckton of time to figure out what the ideas are and what their implications could be 1/n
Authors: Spend a f*ckton of time to condense their ideas in a 2 page abstract
Me: Spends a f*ckton of time to figure out what the ideas are and what their implications could be 1/n
October 6, 2023 at 9:30 AM
A possibly unpopular opinion (reviewing abstracts for a certain Very Prestigious Conference):
Authors: Spend a f*ckton of time to condense their ideas in a 2 page abstract
Me: Spends a f*ckton of time to figure out what the ideas are and what their implications could be 1/n
Authors: Spend a f*ckton of time to condense their ideas in a 2 page abstract
Me: Spends a f*ckton of time to figure out what the ideas are and what their implications could be 1/n
In which I try writing in Digor in a messenger and discover how thoroughly Georgian has replaced it in my head
September 28, 2023 at 11:51 AM
In which I try writing in Digor in a messenger and discover how thoroughly Georgian has replaced it in my head
Looking for examples of nouns with a defective case paradigm (in any language with morphological case)!
Already have the Russian щец cabbage.soup.DIM.GEN (the only case form this noun has!) and дровец firewood.DIM.GEN (ditto)
Already have the Russian щец cabbage.soup.DIM.GEN (the only case form this noun has!) and дровец firewood.DIM.GEN (ditto)
September 27, 2023 at 7:02 AM
Looking for examples of nouns with a defective case paradigm (in any language with morphological case)!
Already have the Russian щец cabbage.soup.DIM.GEN (the only case form this noun has!) and дровец firewood.DIM.GEN (ditto)
Already have the Russian щец cabbage.soup.DIM.GEN (the only case form this noun has!) and дровец firewood.DIM.GEN (ditto)
My 1st post here ought to be about one of the most famous Georgian poems, Nikoloz Baratashvili's ცისა ფერს ʦ-isa per-s sky-gen color-dat 'Blue color' 'The color of the sky, the color of azure, the color of the primeval creation, and not of this world, I loved since boyhood'
Hope to write it later
Hope to write it later
September 26, 2023 at 6:45 AM
My 1st post here ought to be about one of the most famous Georgian poems, Nikoloz Baratashvili's ცისა ფერს ʦ-isa per-s sky-gen color-dat 'Blue color' 'The color of the sky, the color of azure, the color of the primeval creation, and not of this world, I loved since boyhood'
Hope to write it later
Hope to write it later