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
Language without syntax? Lessons from Star Trek
In Star Trek: The New Generation there is an interesting linguistic episode in Season 5 called Darmok. In this episode, our heroes come across aRead More
A comic about fieldwork 4
Another comic about fieldwork! It always seems like other people’s fieldwork experience was easier and better, but in the end of the day we allRead More
A comic about Halloween and logic
I wrote this comic as being about a logician, but it could easily be a semanticist. It actually happens to me quite often that IRead More
A comic about fieldwork 3
This comic is a great illustration of what it means to be a linguist surrounded by people speaking the language you are studying. We areRead More
A comic about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
This comic is inspired by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and especially its interpretation in the 2016 film Arrival. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, more precisely called “linguistic relativity”, refersRead More
Uncovering grammatical meanings through fieldwork
I recently gave an outreach talk about my research to a group of physicists interested in linguistics, and I decided to share the summary ofRead More