Can I get the source for the Japanese semantic hierarchy one?

They're going to reinvent kana from first principles 🙏

I mean no disrespect to the person or the rest of his work when I say this but his Proto-IE-Tsimshianic is one of the goofiest proto-language reconstructions I've ever read. Look at these correspondences dawg, this was published in 2017!!! The actual cognate sets are... worse

I was wondering whether this was the case for the Nguni lateral obstruent series and apparently it might've been? www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...

The source also discusses some other cases like the Proto-Khanty one and a central Tai language apparently

One variety of Taishanese is even reported to have tɬ and tɬʰ as reflexes of MC dental sibilants in certain characters commons.ln.edu.hk/ljcs_1929/vo...

Proto-Yue *s > ɬ unconditionally, *ʃ > ɬ in some environments in many modern Yue varieties like the 邕潯 branch, and parts of 四邑 (Common Yue: A Comparative Study of Yue Dialect Historical Phonology)

That's all, ye īxquich

idk I just think if you don't find literally any of the work that's come out of the generative tradition interesting or fruitful at all, you have just as narrow and parochial a view of what's worth studying in linguistics as your strawman monolingual navel-gazing ivory tower MIT linguist

One thing I always think about is how I almost never see descriptive grammars treat ellipsis or RNR or quantifier scope in detail, these are very underdescribed phenomena that could benefit hugely from descriptions from understudied languages, but you need a theory to know where to look for data

It just feels like they're still holding onto grudges about funding from their early career days and obsessed with shadow boxing the memory, the ghost of Chomsky and the MIT ling department from the 60s, while your average generativist just wants to grill and a lot even do very cool fieldwork

This comparison honestly makes no sense if you think too hard about it, and you absolutely shouldn't, but from a pure vibes perspective I feel like the sour-grapesiness of some anti-generativists does give 貧乳村, vs the 寛容な generativist diving into their (imagined) pool of sweet grant money

I always wondered whether her name was meant as a not so subtle multilingual pun on like, Kimika ~ química (= chemistry, even the pitch-accent pattern matches the stress), or it was just a funny coincidence... maybe nominal determinism is real and she was always meant to be a 詩人、剣豪、哲学者……そして化学のパイオニア

Like to put it another way, signed and spoken human languages share deep structural similarities that birdsong almost certainly doesn't, despite them using entirely different motor and perceptual systems, so there's obviously something more to human language than just the sounds of spoken languages

(Setting aside the fascinating work by linguists and neuroscientists suggesting that birdsong also has recursive syntax like human language)

My relative 💪🤝💪 neurolinguists
being really into bird language

So not that it's not amazing that there are animals that can produce something like the phonology of human languages, but they're only speaking insofar as speech is just phonology with no need for syntax or semantics, as if those whistlers could "speak bird"

I was telling someone about the whistled registers of some Oto-Manguean languages like Sochiapam Chinantec and they seemed very convinced that this meant ipso facto that those speakers (whistlers(?)) would be able to communicate with birds, like if they found a curious enough bird ig