Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 1hGefeliciteerd met zo’n Rifka! (En met je verjaardag!) 000
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7hWhy are its paws like that? 🧐 (Very cool btw!!) 120
Reposted by Jenneke van der Waltenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Leiden University (@unileiden.bsky.social) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics, Morphology and Constructicography of Dutch #postdoc #linguistsky #computationallinguistics 103
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalGaston Dorren @languagewriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ik heb hem al besteld! Alleen nog een spijker in de wc-muur slaan en 2027 kan beginnen. 021
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hij is er, de prachtige Stemmen van Afrika scheurkalender! 🤩 Geweldig om na zoveel werk door het fysieke exemplaar te kunnen bladeren! Wil jij er ook een? Je kan ‘m hier bestellen: www.universityshopleiden.nl/nl/boeken/57... 053
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Het #weekendvandewetenschap was weer een feest! Jong en oud leerde over Afrikaanse talen in onze escape room- luisteren naar kliks, ritmes zoeken in het Somali of woorden puzzelen in Chichewa: het was allemaal even leuk! 🌍 🧩 030
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I waved to the traindriver; he waved back 👋 We both feel seen and the evening is better for it 😊 040
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalChristian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Taking a linguistics course improved foreign language grades by about one entire grade (B > A). New publication by UB PhD Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, along with Mandy Simons and Seth Weiner. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comTake an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning AbilityCan general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning... 1259
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Happy supervisor 😊 enjoying both the treats and the next chapter of what will be a good dissertation ☕️ 📖 080
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why is it ‘counterexpectation’ but not ‘unexpectation’? 🧐 (‘Unexpectedness’ being the less elegant alternative) 000
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalDarin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“A sketch of Hadza grammar” by Andrew Harvey, Richard Griscom and Jeremy Coburn (Sep. ’26) journals.flvc.org/sal/article/... 263
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Amazing! En als je nou wilt weten waar het woord Ubuntu vandaan komt, moet je even onze scheurkalender kopen, want daar staat het antwoord in (en nog een boel leuke weetjes)! www.universityshopleiden.nl/nl/boeken/57...universityshopleiden.nlStemmen van Afrika - Scheurkalender 2027Hoeveel Afrikaanse talen zijn er? Waar in Afrika bestaat een vierdaagse week en waarom? En waarom was het woord voor ‘haan’ taboe in sommige Angolese talen? Op deze en veel meer vragen krijg je antwoo... 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dat helaas niet… Maar als je wilt mag je ‘m met een voorbeeld en een QR code onder de aandacht brengen! 000
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Zo exciting! Onze Stemmen van Afrika scheurkalender is in de voorverkoop - volg de link en bestel ‘m alvast! www.universityshopleiden.nl/nl/boeken/57...universityshopleiden.nl 133
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Further variation on the meme: The year is 1986. The president was born in 1944 The year is 1996. The president was born in 1944 The year is 2006. The president was born in 1944. The year is 2016. The president was born in 1944. The year is 2026. The president was born in 1944. (Where are we?) 120
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is for an introductory assignment where students create a ‘passport’ for African linguists, to become familiar with the field 🪪🗺️ 000
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Who are the African linguists that all students should learn about? (Salikoko Mufwene, Martine Vanhove, Roland Kiessling, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo…) #linguistics 221
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Voorproefje van wat er over een maand komt: de Stemmen van Afrika scheurkalender! We zijn druk bezig met de laatste dagen nakijken, maar wat wordt ‘ie tof! Nog even geduld en je kan ‘m bestellen voor al je vrienden 🤩 195
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Please enjoy the beauty of this little cup of jasmine tea 090
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The third meeting of the Applicatives Alternations Across Languages network is in full swing in Göttingen! @andraas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Jozina Vander Klok and Jens Hopperdietzel thanks for organising us! aaal.uni-koeln.de 031
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Refers to mostly east-asian languages where you can omit expression of arguments, just saying a verb (regardless of whether the language marks indexing); cf pro-drop 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Pavel Ozerov just used the term “all you can drop” language and I think we should use this from now on 161
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalYoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Volgend jaar brengen vormgever en kaartenmaker Frans van der Vleuten en ik een boek uit met 100 kaarten over alledaagse taal en cultuur in Nederland – en daar kun jij aan bijdragen! Vul onze enquêtes in en jouw data komen op de kaarten. 🗺️ Nu online: enquête 1: studiovandervleuten.nl/boek-vraag/ 228729
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@jeanette-sakel.bsky.social (sorry for the extra n!) 000
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Also, Osnabrück definitely has the best traffic lights 🤩😂🐴 0100
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So the ‘hodiernal’ could be said to then refer to the moment of discovery/reaction? 😮 100
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#MapLE will benefit from this wave of interest and move us even further I hope - the MapLErs who were here are dedicated in any case! (With Crisófia Langa da Câmara, Giosuè Balocco, Guillaume Guitang) 160
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026As @karolina-grzech.bsky.social said during the discussion, the fact that we all took one epistemic space as a starting point and that the workshop was so well-attended shows the progress and growing popularity of epistemicity in linguistics! 110
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wrap up! Our workshop at #SLE59 ‘The morphosyntax of who knows what and how’ has been incredibly enriching: new data (once you know about epistemicity, you can start seeing it in the lgs of the world), new comparisons, new theoretical ideas from different frameworks! 150
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026As the final speaker of our workshop, Mandred Krifka explained how epistemic operators influence commitment: the speaker gives reasons why the addressee should accept what the speaker says. Funnily enough, saying ‘certainly’ weakens the commitment! #SLE59 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Look at this amazing system of Kichwa (Ecuador) epistemic markers that Giosuè Balocco presented! He argued that the famous =mi is actually the speaker’s proposal to integrate info into the common ground. Other enclitics also manipulate the CG and are not determined by authority. #SLE59 030
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Eva Poliakova presented how in Telengit (Turkic, Altai) the non-firsthand/indirective past -tır is more likely to be used if the info is 1) surprising and/or 2) recently acquired. Now you’ve just learned this and are possibly surprised about it! #SLE59 130
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Emai (Edoid, Nigeria) has an incredibly rich conjugation system, which Ronald Schaeffer & Francis Egbokare know all about! The preverbal domain can host a whole range of markers with epistemic functions, showing speculation, assumption, or deduction of info (and more!) #SLE59 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Does your language have a marker for ‘this is totally expected information’? Gizey (Chadic, Cameroon) does, and Guillaume Guitang told us all about it on the second day of our epistemicity workshop @ #SLE59 151
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Henrik Bergqvist took us on a conceptual thinking exercise: how do Levinson’s frames work for knowledge, as absolute, intrinsic or relative? Can this account for the markers in Kogi? Food for thought! #SLE59 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Did you know that pseudoclefts not only structure the information, but also give a good indication of how interlocutors navigate the shared-issue space? Nariman Aliakbar & Agnes Celle presented how pseudoclefts give cues to constrain the epistemic affordance of the utterance #SLE59 010
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalIntenudas @izmarasan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yesterday was the Ranar Hausa , the day of hausa language and culture . The hausa language is the most spoken language in west Africa . 093
Reposted by Jenneke van der WalMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z... 27434
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thera Crane and Eva-Marie Bloom Ström presented “ungrammatical” uses of the conjoint/disjoint verb forms in Xhosa and Ndengeleko with intensifying, mirative, verum interpretations - extravagance in marking corresponds to extravagance in meaning #SLE59 040
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In today’s last session, Mike Diercks showed his arguments for late merger of information structural items, based on surface-oriented Bantu phenomena. The meanings are derivationally late (high in the tree) but the morphology shows up low. This should work for other epistemic markers too #SLE59 010
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Shihong Zhou and Jeannette Sakel explain how Mandarin ‘hao’ indicates shared knowledge with addressee authority, whereas ‘ao’ is used when the speaker knows and the addressee doesn’t - because of speaker authority, ao can then also be used deontically 💡 #SLE59 170
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Valentina Colasanti presents on ‘mani giunti’ as a co-speech gesture indicating a mismatch between the speaker and addressee. Gestures can be epistemic markers too! #SLE59 161
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Here are Zoe Tribur and Bettina Zeisler presenting how flexible and multifunctional the egophoric/factive Tibetan copulas are. They propose 3 dimensions of meaning: knowledge-related, event-related, and an interactional value - all interacting #SLE59 031
Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026 @cbodnaruk.com presented his overview of Trans-Himalayan languages and how simple or complex their epistemic systems are in bith form and function #SLE59 030
