Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tfw when it's neither conference registration or travel but accommodation costs that you've to worry about 120
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RSāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Conférence très intéressante sur l'écriture de l'Indus. Very interesting talk on the Indus script. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9q...youtube.comOngoing decipherments : Writing in the Indus Civilization - by Dennys FrenezYouTube video by ILARA 0105
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RSāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you want to listen to some beautiful poppy Ossetian (Digoron dialect) ejectives, Cærikʼati Rimmæ has got you. www.instagram.com/reel/DeHjEoA...instagram.comРИМА ЦАРИКАТИ on Instagram: "«Дигорон авзаг, ма зарда» Хохойти Федар»да капекк райса…😁#чикола #дигоронавзаг #актриса"114 likes, 8 comments - rima_tsarikati_iron_teatr on October 5, 2026: "«Дигорон авзаг, ма зарда» Хохойти Федар»да капекк райса…😁#чикола #дигоронавзаг #актриса". 062
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RAnastasia Bauer @anastasia-bauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am thrilled to be a co-author on the paper "Kinematics of Negative Headshake in Seven Sign Languages"! 🎉 A big thank you to my colleague Vadim Kimmelman for the fantastic collaboration! 🙌 doi.org/10.1162/OPMI... #SignLanguages #Linguistics #ComputerVision #Negation #Headshakedoi.orgKinematics of Negative Headshake in Seven Sign LanguagesAbstract. In sign languages, negative sentences are often accompanied by nonmanual markers of negation, including headshake. In some sign languages, nonmanual markers alone can express negation, witho... 0114
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Genuinely curious about the notion of "linguistic beauty". Is it the phonology, morphology...? 171
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thanks!! I didn't know @joe-pater.bsky.social was here. He's teaching one of my courses this semester :D 020
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I realise I haven't said this yet: I've started my PhD Linguistics this month at UMass Amherst. I am definitely dreading the weather in another month or so. 5330
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026(sorry, I just saw a really cool thing and that's all I can think about rn) 020
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is really so cool, a speaker A can signal that A considers some information X to be common knowledge, all the while A knows that X is new knowledge to the addressee(s), so A wants the addressee(s) to just accommodate X. It's like a meta use of accommodation, or something. Nice stuff. 160
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RMaarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As you all know, the Musulami were the important Gaetulian group to which Tacfarinas belonged. There may be one stela that commemorates a member of this group, RIL 808. It comes from the ruins of Sila in the region of Sigus, south of Constantine in Algeria, and looks like this ⬇️ 1247
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Any Hungarian speakers here? I need help with grammaticality judgements on 2-3 sentences. 212
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Do economics classes study the American mobile phone network industry as an example of a classic cartel? Because this whole industry is just racketeering. 010
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026static.klipy.comJulius Caesar: Et Tu, Brute?ALT: Julius Caesar: Et Tu, Brute? 000
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Gotta try to get funding for vacations by claiming to conduct fieldwork on the local language(s). Could say I'm working on dialectology, so I just _have_ to travel to all these cities, which just conveniently happen to have historical sites... 2111
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026static.klipy.comMichelle Obama: 'You're Entitled to Your Wrong Opinion'ALT: Michelle Obama: 'You're Entitled to Your Wrong Opinion' 110
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026static.klipy.comDhanush: What?ALT: Dhanush: What? 110
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Milk and turmeric I understand, milk and pepper?? 210
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Interesting. But this is Pāɭi, not Old Indo-Aryan. Or, let's just say this is meant to be a modern utterance of the chant 🤷🏾♂️ 020
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RDarin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“Two /h/s. On debuccalisation in Ancient Greek” by Adèle Jatteau (July ’26) radical.cnrs.fr/jatteau-two-... 1145
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026You do find फ़, ज़, etc. But those who identify as Hindi speakers don't produce q or x, so क़ and ख़ are redundant. 110
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Indeed, only difference that saraṇam is śaraṇam in Sanskrit. 110
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026buddham saraṇam gacchāmi Buddha.SG.ACC refuge.ACC go.IND.PRS.1.SG Pāɭi, i believe. 140
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RSāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Working with native Abkhaz speakers has so long been a dream of mine and I get to do this now. :) The most based interaction: Abkhaz granny: Are there Abkhaz speakers in India? Me: No. Abkhaz granny: Now there will be. 2264
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I don't know arabic - is this anticipatory voicing assimilation? 110
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Peterson's interpretation of the «-ar» in «valar morʁulis» as a collective ‘all men’ was interesting but I personally would've said that the universal meaning was inferred and not present in the morphology. I like the noun classes tho. High Valyrian is like a Burushaski-Classical Latin mix. 000
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RLameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My first proper foray into Afroasiatic-level reconstruction just came out in BJALL: "Disentangling Afroasiatic *t-morphemes: No path from middle to imperfective" brill.com/view/journal... Sadly not open access, but I'd be delighted to send a copy to anyone who asks me for one (myfirstname@gmail)brill.com 44619
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RSāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I don’t know if I’ll have time to read this any time soon, but a very cool monograph on how the Japanese in the 18th century understood Dutch grammar. www.lotpublications.nl/dutch-gramma...lotpublications.nlDutch Grammar in Japanese WordsLorenzo Nespoli: Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words - Reception and Representation of European Theory of Grammar in the Manuscripts of Shizuki Tadao (1760 – 1806) 1216
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026But Jp does have phonetic voiceless vowels, no? (Am I missing the joke?) 120
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026What about, say, people of native American groups who don't speak their community's language? It can't be that simple. 010
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026If anyone has access to this book chapter, please let me know. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comThe Final Glottal Stop of the Kuṛux Verb BasesKur ̣ux has many verb bases ending in ʔ. While y corresponds to ʔ in some cognate Malto verb bases, such as Kr ̣x. ciʔ- vs. Mlt. ciy- ‘give’ and KrR... 022
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Tamil and Malayalam have a surprising number of differences in verbal morphosyntax, it's not possible to understand the Malm verbal complex as a Tamil speaking just by calquing it. 140
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RElisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026It's a Bantuist convention, though some authors do say e.g. "Gender A, Gender B". The advantage of the traditional system is comparative-historical; labels are consistent across Bantu. Also, while often the even number is the plural of the preceding singular (e.g. 3/4), you also get mixes, e.g. 9/6 1123
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I am always annoyed at the reduction of gods to superheroes with powers in a well-defined set of domains, here Enki with “wisdom and water“. 020
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Cool! I wasn't aware that the indep-univ readings are unusual typologically, redupl'd ‘one’ is the only way to express universal ‘each’ meanings in Tamil & Malayalam, while Kannada & Telugu borrow ‹prati› ‘each’ from Sanskrit. 120
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RLizzie Coppock @lizzieloo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In Newar, saying "one-one fish" means each person got one fish. But "one-one letter is correct" means every letter is correct — no licensor needed. How does reduplication of one become every? New paper draft! #linguistics #semantics #fieldwork #reduplication #numerals eecoppock.info/SULAAAA-proc... 1204
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan RSāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Some skeletal notes on how Georgian historical morphology may inform our understanding of that in Ossetic. avzaagzonunaada.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/g...avzaagzonunaada.wordpress.comGeorgian and Ossetian — a non-rigorous diachronic account of plural-markingBoth Georgian and Ossetian lost their case-number syncretized suffixes and replaced them with agglutinating plurals (-ებ & -т(ӕ), respectively) preceding the (singular) case suffixes. In Old Ge… 0101
Reposted by Gopalakrishnan Rkobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Massachusett word of the day: anogqs */anākʷs/ "star" animate plural: anogqsog */anākʷs-ak/ mish(e )anogqs */məš(ī )anākʷs/ "the morning star" (lit. great star) 1134
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026> anākʷ Insert Afro-Asiatic joke. I couldn't think of something funny. What book is this btw? 130
Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaalt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026*Turns out In his Malto Texts book, Kobayashi says that an̪t̪e seems almost mandatory esp. with different subject converbs. That makes sense to me, as one'd want to insert “then” more in such cases, and eventually it grammaticalises into a conjunctor. 010
![anógąs, n. an. a star; pl. anoggsog, El.
Gr. 9; 1 Cor. 15, +1; Job 22, 12; mis-hánogkus [mishe unoggs, great star], the morning or day star, 2 Pet. 1, 19. For anóggussu, he appears, shows himself.
In distinction from the sun, which rises or comes forth (paspishau) and sets (goes away, wayau), the stars appear in their places when the absence of the sun and moon makes them visible.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreicg3bx6dfiitnohfzcbiwvcb76bhfhny3rhonv72wwnwkj7khodqu)
