Have you ever wondered if the students in Harry Potter are taught anything at all about the etymology of their spells? I wish I couldRead More
Presentation at the ALS conference
Last month I presented my talk on the topic of semantics of mood and aspect in Nafsan at the 2020 Conference of the Australian LinguisticRead More
A comic about New Year’s in the Northern Hemisphere
There is at least a silver lining for the New Year’s of 2020. You can wear whatever you want without freezing!
A comic about presents
The Christmas holidays are approaching, and I can pretty much predict how the opening of the presents will go for me…(except this year I unfortunatelyRead More
Linguistweets conference
I participated today in the Linguistweets conference, where every talk consists of only 6 tweets! I tweeted about my experience with fieldwork methods while describingRead More
A comic about what linguistics is not (with C3PO)
This is probably a cliché complaint by now, but it is also very true. Every time I say I am a linguist, people ask meRead More