Joey Lovestrand
@joeylovestrand.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in linguistics at the University of Essex
Barayin also tends not to morphologically mark plural -- at some point I should check this tendency statistically in the corpus
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Barayin also tends not to morphologically mark plural -- at some point I should check this tendency statistically in the corpus
Interesting bit about recategorizing the gender of nouns for semantic reasons -- I've seen some unexpected gender agreement in my Barayin corpus but never had an idea of why it might be happening
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Interesting bit about recategorizing the gender of nouns for semantic reasons -- I've seen some unexpected gender agreement in my Barayin corpus but never had an idea of why it might be happening
Sounds distinctly British to me? I don't think we do that in American English
August 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Sounds distinctly British to me? I don't think we do that in American English
As in Chadian Arabic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYl...
Chadian Arabic - Lesson 5: Money in Chad Arabic versus in French (the CFA Franc and the Riyaal)
YouTube video by ChadNOW
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As in Chadian Arabic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYl...
Similar to Polynesian t/k/ʔ changes - I think this is a fairly rare phenomenon?
April 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Similar to Polynesian t/k/ʔ changes - I think this is a fairly rare phenomenon?
In Ndikiniméki?
February 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In Ndikiniméki?
Chomsky explains the motivation behind his linguistic theories? 🙃
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Chomsky explains the motivation behind his linguistic theories? 🙃
Never seen this but also not been looking for it
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Never seen this but also not been looking for it