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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Feeling huge relief after having finished my MA and getting it approved yesterday 🥲

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Got to present my poster on Handshape phonology in Egyptian Sign Language at the Chicago Linguistics Society today

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Stuck at home with the flu and had to cancel my talk at SALSA today on Egyptian SL toponyms— those interested can check out the interactive map of city/governorate names here: egysignmaps.github.io

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

sad to see this resource will disappear-- what other arabic corpora are out there? this was one of the only ones I knew of for Egyptian

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Looking forward to #SIGNCAFE in Warsaw this week!

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Because we’re moving between different regions every 2-3 days fieldwork is really exhausting this time but we’re doing so many interviews and learning so much about regional lexical variation

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Advertising my language tutoring services: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/p/sign-up-fo...

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQw... just found this series from 2011-2012 about Deaf culture in France recently uploaded- with French subtitles and signover in LSF

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2011 : L'œil et la main

YouTube video by La main des sourds

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...

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Interlinear glossing

YouTube video by Enhancing Linguistic Scholarship in Eastern Africa

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Absolutely. People also differ in power and privilege so how languages mix also reflects this. It’s important to understand sometimes the push for linguistic ‘purity’ reflects these unequal language dynamics: this is how I contextualise anti-English sentiments in the BSL and Auslan communities.

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Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#Linguistics folks, do you know of any research on whether interlinear glossing helps learners acquire morphology? especially for language revitalization contexts?

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

أعتقد أن كل من يهتم باللغة النوبية وتعلمها لازم يعرف عن محمد متولي بدر وأعماله

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Excited to virtually share my poster with everyone at #TISLR15

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Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Very much enjoyed presenting my poster at #TISLR15 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today! One important message in our poster is that factors like methodology, researcher's background, and language documentation may affect one's result. Happy to share/discuss more via DM or Email!

A research poster titled 'Reference tracking, the use of space, and sociolinguistic ecologies in the Kufr Qassem and British signing communities' by Marah Jaraissy and colleagues from the University of Birmingham. The poster compares language structures in two deaf communities: Kufr Qassem (using KQSL/ISL) and British (using BSL). It explores the effects of social structure, language contact, and language age on semiotic diversity in storytelling. Key sections include:

1. Background: Discusses influences on language use, including community size, network density, and language contact, with simpler sign types used in smaller communities.

2. Methodology: Includes narrative retellings of a silent film clip by participants (12 bilingual KQSL/ISL signers and 12 BSL signers).

3. Results: Highlights differences in the use of lexical signs, pointing, classifier constructions, and overt constructed action between the two communities. Signers of KQSL/ISL use overt constructed action more, while BSL signers use more classifier constructions

4. Discussion and Conclusion: Links findings to social and linguistic factors, but also suggesting influences of methodology and researcher background.

5. Future Directions: Proposes studying referent's animacy and narrative viewpoints effects on storytelling

Charts and diagrams provide data on sign type proportions, while logos and QR codes for references appear at the bottom."

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#TISLR15 Anyone know how virtual participants are meant to participate in the poster sessions?

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New app for Demotic Egyptian now available for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... iOS version coming soon

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Learn Demotic Egyptian - Apps on Google Play

Learners dictionary of Demotic

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

‎TIL classical arabic actually does distinguish between medial and distal demonstratives ذاك وذلك ‎I always just thought ذاك was a variant of ذلك

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's been a long time but I finally got back to the Nobiin lessons-- lesson 2 is now available here: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/01/nobi...

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Nobiin Lesson 2 ⲇⲁⲣⲥ ⲟⲩⳣⲟⲩⲧⲧⲓ ⲗⲓ الدرس الثاني في لغة نوبين

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

“Deaf equality and human rights: Sign language documentation and the power of deaf-led research.” Lecture by Dr. Nick Palfreyman for the LAGB* Nov 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVYD... * www.lagb.org.uk #linguistics #sign #signlanguage

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Deaf equality and human rights: Sign language documentation and the power of deaf-led research

YouTube video by Linguistics Association of Great Britain

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@Shayterp @drhilltx.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Kenya was front and center thanks to Margaret Odhiambo (now at Univ of Hamburg). Her presentation shared the Effects on Deaf Students of Glossing Kenyan Sign Language in Written English. I loved how she asked for input from the audience to generate ideas to improve education of deaf Kenyans.

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Rogelio Fernández Mota 🇲🇽 @rfernandezmota.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Lina Hou’s keynote, MIND-PING: Grammars and Epistemologies, challenges us to rethink multilanguage, knowledge, and Eurocentric Deaf epistemologies 🙌🏽 #Sign10 @linasigns.bsky.social

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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Repost of my old "Types of Sign Language Paper". #Linguistics #SignLanguages

A 3x4 grid of seemingly academic papers where only the titles are legible. Top header reads "Types of sign language paper" and the (joke) paper titles read:
•That one paper non-SL linguists ever cite (if any)
•Commentary: revisiting reanalyses of so-called verb agreement - the very final word
•Generic handbook chapter published 3 times already
•I-co-ni-ci-ty!!!
•SLs do this thing (actually we tested hearing gesturers)
•Something something something variation
•We wasted time making yet another sign translation glove
•We developed a new transcription system! You'll all use it from now on, right? Guys?
•Frogs, dogs and dangerous things: a corpus study
•Let me take these terms and redefine them completely lmao
•Indicating an anaphoric real space tobek blend R-locus location index in signing space
•Yes, but is it "linguistic"?

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Ethan Hartzell @ehartz01.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

excited to share the first version of my new app for learning sign language annotation and writing systems here at #SIGN10 in Trinidad today web: signlanguagetranscription.github.io iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/sign-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Lee Orfila @leeorfila.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you're at #SIGN10, come say hi! I'll be presenting a poster on how different sign languages represent numbers tomorrow afternoon in poster room 3.

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