Dominique Bobeck
@dombobeck.bsky.social
Conlanger for The Gryphon, linguist (phonologist, morphologist), semitist, he/him, 30, based in Berlin, #langsky, friend of liberalism
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Dominique Bobeck
@dombobeck.bsky.social
· Feb 27
Is There Really Root-and-Pattern Morphology? Evidence from Classical Arabic
| Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?"
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
And then there’s over-the-top Venda citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?rep...
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
And then there’s over-the-top Venda citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?rep...
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
In al-Awabi Arabic (Oman), the prefix vowel of imperfect verbs is generally determined by the place of articulation of the first root consonant:
yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!]
yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub
yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!]
yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub
April 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In al-Awabi Arabic (Oman), the prefix vowel of imperfect verbs is generally determined by the place of articulation of the first root consonant:
yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!]
yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub
yi- if C1 is coronal or emphatic [!]
yiḍḥuk, yiḍrub, yiṣbaġ, yiṭlub
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze"
Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.
Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...
Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.
Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...
March 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze"
Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.
Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...
Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview.
Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...
More than 40 downloads in just 2 days! So far and by far, the most downloaded paper of the volume. A big thank you to all who've read (or are reading) the paper!
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
#linguistics
#academicsky
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
#linguistics
#academicsky
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
More than 40 downloads in just 2 days! So far and by far, the most downloaded paper of the volume. A big thank you to all who've read (or are reading) the paper!
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
#linguistics
#academicsky
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
#linguistics
#academicsky
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
(1) How did Syriac end up with different 1s, 2ms perfect forms ket̠bet̠ vs. kt̠ab̠t, if the ancestors are katabt-u, katabt-a?
(2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at?
(3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?
(2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at?
(3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?
February 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
(1) How did Syriac end up with different 1s, 2ms perfect forms ket̠bet̠ vs. kt̠ab̠t, if the ancestors are katabt-u, katabt-a?
(2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at?
(3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?
(2) Why does 3fs show /e/ if the ancestor is katab-at?
(3) Does 2fs show deletion of a *long* -ī (*katab-tī)? 1pl can be kt̠ab̠n, where's the -ā of *-nā?
It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?"
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
Is There Really Root-and-Pattern Morphology? Evidence from Classical Arabic
| Catalan Journal of Linguistics
revistes.uab.cat
February 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's finally there! My first publication as a single author: "Is there really root-and-pattern morphology?"
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
revistes.uab.cat/catjl/articl...
Arabic, (no!) roots & patterns, theoretical phonology and morphology, it's all there!
#Arabic - #linguistics - #langsky - #phonology
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
"Arabisch zu sprechen, gefährdet die öffentliche Sicherheit", begründet die Polizei ihr Sprachverbot und kriminalisiert damit pauschal eine Sprache und die Menschen, die sie sprechen.
Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!
Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!
February 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Arabisch zu sprechen, gefährdet die öffentliche Sicherheit", begründet die Polizei ihr Sprachverbot und kriminalisiert damit pauschal eine Sprache und die Menschen, die sie sprechen.
Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!
Berliner Behörden müssen das Recht auf Protest und Nicht-Diskriminierung für alle wahren!
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
In Germany, the word RECHTS 'right' has undergone an interesting semantic shift. Concerning politics, it just meant 'conservative'. But now, many use it as 'far-right (populist)'. Being conservative is nothing wrong. But this is not what ppl demonstrate against.
Düsseldorf stellt sich quer und Mitglieder der @hhu.bsky.social sind dabei!
Wer ebenfalls Flagge für Demokratie zeigen möchte und dafür noch ein Plakatmotiv braucht, kann sich gerne bei uns (auch per PM) melden - wir teilen unseren #HeineGegenRechts mit euch!
Wer ebenfalls Flagge für Demokratie zeigen möchte und dafür noch ein Plakatmotiv braucht, kann sich gerne bei uns (auch per PM) melden - wir teilen unseren #HeineGegenRechts mit euch!
February 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
In Germany, the word RECHTS 'right' has undergone an interesting semantic shift. Concerning politics, it just meant 'conservative'. But now, many use it as 'far-right (populist)'. Being conservative is nothing wrong. But this is not what ppl demonstrate against.
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
“A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia” by Norbert Maïonchi-Pino and Élise Runge www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia - Volume 45 Issue 6
www.cambridge.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
“A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia” by Norbert Maïonchi-Pino and Élise Runge www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
This is censorship, full frontal attack on academic freedom by any means.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is censorship, full frontal attack on academic freedom by any means.
Phonology cannot alter morphology but only phonological exponents! A good example of avoidance of obligatory vowel contrast in stressed positions! (1/n)
In Spanish, 'agua' isn't a masculine noun but feminine.
El agua → las aguas
When a singular feminine noun begins with a stressed 'a' or 'ha' sound (agua, águila, hacha), the definite article 'la' changes to 'el' for ease of pronunciation.
#LangSky
El agua → las aguas
When a singular feminine noun begins with a stressed 'a' or 'ha' sound (agua, águila, hacha), the definite article 'la' changes to 'el' for ease of pronunciation.
#LangSky
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Phonology cannot alter morphology but only phonological exponents! A good example of avoidance of obligatory vowel contrast in stressed positions! (1/n)
CALL FOR PAPERS!
I'm happy to announce the 41st Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik: Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds.
12th - 14th of September 2025, Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Germany.
Submission deadline: 28th of February 2025
www.phantastik.eu/veranstaltun...
I'm happy to announce the 41st Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik: Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds.
12th - 14th of September 2025, Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Germany.
Submission deadline: 28th of February 2025
www.phantastik.eu/veranstaltun...
Phantastische Bibliothek - Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik 2025
Die Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar ist eine Spezialbibliothek für phantastische Literatur (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Utopien, Horror, Phantastik, Märchen/Sagen/Mythen, Reise- und Abenteuerliteratur)...
www.phantastik.eu
January 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
I'm happy to announce the 41st Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik: Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds.
12th - 14th of September 2025, Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Germany.
Submission deadline: 28th of February 2025
www.phantastik.eu/veranstaltun...
I'm happy to announce the 41st Wetzlarer Tage der Phantastik: Beyond Elvish: Constructed Languages in Fantastic Worlds.
12th - 14th of September 2025, Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, Germany.
Submission deadline: 28th of February 2025
www.phantastik.eu/veranstaltun...
Foreign language taste says more about the ppl who say "I (dis)like the sound of ..." than about the respective languages. Of course I have my phonesthetic preferences, but *familiarity* is a major factor in foreign language assessment.
Cf. Reiterer et al. 2020,
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cf. Reiterer et al. 2020,
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Foreign language taste says more about the ppl who say "I (dis)like the sound of ..." than about the respective languages. Of course I have my phonesthetic preferences, but *familiarity* is a major factor in foreign language assessment.
Cf. Reiterer et al. 2020,
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cf. Reiterer et al. 2020,
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm a formal phonologist. This field is/was kind of dominated by men (Halle, Kiparsky, Vennemann, Prince, Smolensky ...). Considering that more than ¾ of the students in my phonology class are women, I decided to present some inspiring female phonologists and their work. (1/2)
January 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'm a formal phonologist. This field is/was kind of dominated by men (Halle, Kiparsky, Vennemann, Prince, Smolensky ...). Considering that more than ¾ of the students in my phonology class are women, I decided to present some inspiring female phonologists and their work. (1/2)
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
William Labov is overleden. Een van de inspirerendste taalwetenschappers die ik heb gekend. Een in memoriam.
neerlandistiek.nl/2024/12/in-m...
neerlandistiek.nl/2024/12/in-m...
In memoriam William Labov (1927-2024)
Gisteravond is op 97-jarige leeftijd de Amerikaanse taalkundige William Labov overleden.
neerlandistiek.nl
December 18, 2024 at 5:30 AM
William Labov is overleden. Een van de inspirerendste taalwetenschappers die ik heb gekend. Een in memoriam.
neerlandistiek.nl/2024/12/in-m...
neerlandistiek.nl/2024/12/in-m...
How to say the fire 🔥 in different languages - #Semitic:
Arabic: نار nār
Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ ʼešāṯā
Bibl. Hebrew: אש ʼēš
Gəʿəz: እሳት ʼəsat
Tigrinya: ሓዊ ḥawwi
Akkadian: išātu(m)
Mehri: śīwōṭ
Arabic: نار nār
Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ ʼešāṯā
Bibl. Hebrew: אש ʼēš
Gəʿəz: እሳት ʼəsat
Tigrinya: ሓዊ ḥawwi
Akkadian: išātu(m)
Mehri: śīwōṭ
How to say the fire 🔥 in different languages:
English 🇺🇸 fire
Dutch 🇳🇱 vuur
Spanish 🇪🇸 fuego
French 🇫🇷 feu
German 🇩🇪 Feuer
#bluesky#langsky#langtwt#wotd
English 🇺🇸 fire
Dutch 🇳🇱 vuur
Spanish 🇪🇸 fuego
French 🇫🇷 feu
German 🇩🇪 Feuer
#bluesky#langsky#langtwt#wotd
December 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM
How to say the fire 🔥 in different languages - #Semitic:
Arabic: نار nār
Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ ʼešāṯā
Bibl. Hebrew: אש ʼēš
Gəʿəz: እሳት ʼəsat
Tigrinya: ሓዊ ḥawwi
Akkadian: išātu(m)
Mehri: śīwōṭ
Arabic: نار nār
Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ ʼešāṯā
Bibl. Hebrew: אש ʼēš
Gəʿəz: እሳት ʼəsat
Tigrinya: ሓዊ ḥawwi
Akkadian: išātu(m)
Mehri: śīwōṭ
When I started with cuneiform, I learned the "monumental" form of the Old Babylonian period from a primer. But the main bunch of forms, I learned from Atrahasis - Old Babylonian, but cursive. While reading the epos, I made at least 100 flashcards and trained with them.
Sumerian & Akkadian studies (all cuneiform)
You learn a maze of conventions - subscripts; accents that aren’t accents; upper case, lower case & italic latinizations; the abbreviations of 1,000 journals, books & universities; the names of 100 scholars
Then you can start learning the signs
#langsky
You learn a maze of conventions - subscripts; accents that aren’t accents; upper case, lower case & italic latinizations; the abbreviations of 1,000 journals, books & universities; the names of 100 scholars
Then you can start learning the signs
#langsky
December 15, 2024 at 9:57 AM
When I started with cuneiform, I learned the "monumental" form of the Old Babylonian period from a primer. But the main bunch of forms, I learned from Atrahasis - Old Babylonian, but cursive. While reading the epos, I made at least 100 flashcards and trained with them.
The interrogative 'why' in #Semitic languages:
- Classical Arabic: li-māðā
- Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š)
- Modern Hebrew: la-ma
- Syriac: l-mānā
- Turoyo: l-mən
- Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt
- Amharic: lä-mən
- Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh
- Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m)
(1/2)
- Classical Arabic: li-māðā
- Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š)
- Modern Hebrew: la-ma
- Syriac: l-mānā
- Turoyo: l-mən
- Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt
- Amharic: lä-mən
- Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh
- Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m)
(1/2)
December 13, 2024 at 9:03 AM
The interrogative 'why' in #Semitic languages:
- Classical Arabic: li-māðā
- Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š)
- Modern Hebrew: la-ma
- Syriac: l-mānā
- Turoyo: l-mən
- Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt
- Amharic: lä-mən
- Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh
- Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m)
(1/2)
- Classical Arabic: li-māðā
- Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š)
- Modern Hebrew: la-ma
- Syriac: l-mānā
- Turoyo: l-mən
- Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt
- Amharic: lä-mən
- Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh
- Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m)
(1/2)
Reposted by Dominique Bobeck
The Oxford handbook of vowel harmony by Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), OUP, 2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 11, 2024 at 4:23 AM
The Oxford handbook of vowel harmony by Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), OUP, 2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
#linguistics - How students vs. researchers think about phonology:
Students:
- In language history, x happened because of y
- The letters/sounds Bee, Dee, Gee ...
- Ease/difficulty explains everything
(1/2)
Students:
- In language history, x happened because of y
- The letters/sounds Bee, Dee, Gee ...
- Ease/difficulty explains everything
(1/2)
December 10, 2024 at 8:50 AM
#linguistics - How students vs. researchers think about phonology:
Students:
- In language history, x happened because of y
- The letters/sounds Bee, Dee, Gee ...
- Ease/difficulty explains everything
(1/2)
Students:
- In language history, x happened because of y
- The letters/sounds Bee, Dee, Gee ...
- Ease/difficulty explains everything
(1/2)