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
I haven't seen any ! (Though in an alternative universe where I'd have had unlimited time I'd rather learn Amharic or Tigrinya)
February 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I haven't seen any ! (Though in an alternative universe where I'd have had unlimited time I'd rather learn Amharic or Tigrinya)
It's literally a scene from Nabokov's Pnin. (Minus the intent to scan it, of course)
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's literally a scene from Nabokov's Pnin. (Minus the intent to scan it, of course)
"Elder Avestan" irresistibly suggests me that its speakers had something to do with elder trees
February 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Elder Avestan" irresistibly suggests me that its speakers had something to do with elder trees
Что такое нафоид?
February 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Что такое нафоид?
In (some varieties of) German, I believe, wo 'where' has become an all-purpose relativizer. Why would English be any worse? :)
January 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In (some varieties of) German, I believe, wo 'where' has become an all-purpose relativizer. Why would English be any worse? :)
Alas (it doesn't seem this is the only typo...)
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Alas (it doesn't seem this is the only typo...)
There's an interview with me on youtube, which I've never listened to -- exactly to prevent that sad outcome
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's an interview with me on youtube, which I've never listened to -- exactly to prevent that sad outcome
Is there any compelling reason to assume that these would be texts? :)
January 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Is there any compelling reason to assume that these would be texts? :)
Is he serving something to her raw? :)
January 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Is he serving something to her raw? :)
I'm not sure it amounts to much as a grammar tbh :)
January 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm not sure it amounts to much as a grammar tbh :)
Abkhaz has extra symbols too (it retained the 19 c Cyrillic, the Soviet time Cyrillic scripts were more standardized) ҩ and ҿ, for instance
January 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Abkhaz has extra symbols too (it retained the 19 c Cyrillic, the Soviet time Cyrillic scripts were more standardized) ҩ and ҿ, for instance
Набор "Юный хирург" 🪓🪚
January 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Набор "Юный хирург" 🪓🪚
Oops, I honestly thought it was something he made out of ἐργον :)
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Oops, I honestly thought it was something he made out of ἐργον :)
Looks like a lot of ergatives :)
January 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Looks like a lot of ergatives :)
А где это? Я только в эритрейских кварталах бывал, не знал, что есть другие этнические
January 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
А где это? Я только в эритрейских кварталах бывал, не знал, что есть другие этнические
Then it makes even more sense -- the topic is clitic-doubled
January 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Then it makes even more sense -- the topic is clitic-doubled
At any rate, topics are often excluded from the calculation of the Wackernagel position, see e.g. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Notes on Wackernagel’s Law in the language of the Rigveda
Notes on Wackernagel’s Law in the language of the Rigveda was published in Studies in Memory of Warren Cowgill (1929-1985) on page 38.
doi.org
January 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
At any rate, topics are often excluded from the calculation of the Wackernagel position, see e.g. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
I am not sure where the DPs get their accusative from -- is the dative enclitic not the argument of the verb?
January 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am not sure where the DPs get their accusative from -- is the dative enclitic not the argument of the verb?