Joey Lovestrand
@joeylovestrand.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in linguistics at the University of Essex
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University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar
Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur
Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara)
🗓️ Thu 13 November
🕰️ 5PM *note the later time*
💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646
Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur
Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara)
🗓️ Thu 13 November
🕰️ 5PM *note the later time*
💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar
Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur
Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara)
🗓️ Thu 13 November
🕰️ 5PM *note the later time*
💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646
Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur
Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara)
🗓️ Thu 13 November
🕰️ 5PM *note the later time*
💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646
Reposted by Joey Lovestrand
Tomorrow (Th 23 Oct) at 12 PM!
Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)
Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)
Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Tomorrow (Th 23 Oct) at 12 PM!
Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)
Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Non-iconic verb doubling in the Masana-Gizey continuum (Cameroon and Chad)
Guillaume Guitang (University of Oxford)
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Reposted by Joey Lovestrand
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
Call collaborators
Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…
epistemicity.net
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
Recently read and resonated with this 2001 talk (via LingTyp) by Scott DeLancey, even though the term "functionalist" was never used in my academic-social circles
"What all functionalists have in common is a rejection of the notion of formalism as explanation."
pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/...
"What all functionalists have in common is a rejection of the notion of formalism as explanation."
pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/...
01: On Functional Linguistics
pages.uoregon.edu
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Recently read and resonated with this 2001 talk (via LingTyp) by Scott DeLancey, even though the term "functionalist" was never used in my academic-social circles
"What all functionalists have in common is a rejection of the notion of formalism as explanation."
pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/...
"What all functionalists have in common is a rejection of the notion of formalism as explanation."
pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/...
Directional extensions in Chadic languages
| Language Science Press
langsci-press.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
Reposted by Joey Lovestrand
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
Interesting visualization of the historical spread of Chadic languages
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECU...
History of the Chadic Languages
YouTube video by Costas Melas
www.youtube.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Interesting visualization of the historical spread of Chadic languages
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECU...
Reposted by Joey Lovestrand
Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...
Interlinear glossing
YouTube video by Enhancing Linguistic Scholarship in Eastern Africa
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...
Reposted by Joey Lovestrand
We invite interested speakers to submit abstracts for a panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber and Chadic, to be held at the upcoming Afrikanist*innentag from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Vienna. This panel aims to bring together experts to share insights and advancements on this topic.
LINGUIST List 35.3379 FYI: Afrikanist*innentag 2025: Panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber (Amazigh) and Chadic
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
December 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
We invite interested speakers to submit abstracts for a panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber and Chadic, to be held at the upcoming Afrikanist*innentag from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Vienna. This panel aims to bring together experts to share insights and advancements on this topic.
Not all heroes wear capes 🦸
December 7, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Not all heroes wear capes 🦸
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AI is not going to save endangered languages. If you want to know how I know, please read on 👇
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
Four Villages in Tibet Have a Lot to Tell Us About Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Linguistic Diversity
Artificial intelligence is not going to save the world’s languages. I know this because of lessons I learned studying four villages in Tibet.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
November 13, 2024 at 8:41 PM
AI is not going to save endangered languages. If you want to know how I know, please read on 👇
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...