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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered...

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My recent presentation exploring the function(s) of "cognate complements" or "verb doubling" in a corpus of Barayin (Chadic) from the Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zhv...

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Cognate complements in Barayin (Chadic) | Workshop on verb doubling in Chadic languages (CALL 2026)

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Online workshop on Chadic languages tomorrow (25 Aug)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/08/2026

If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!

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What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“What does the general public want to know about language?” by Victor Kuperman and Gary Libben (Aug. ’26) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"The point of what we are doing is not to add lines to the CV. It's not to get a slightly more high prestige job so that we can slightly diminish our teaching. It's to cultivate and practice ourselves this thing that makes us who we are." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4F...

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A philosopher’s argument against the cult of achievement | Zena Hitz: Full Interview

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyone know to make a world map in R (ggplot) that is centered around the Pacific?

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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Felt so frustrated reading that article... enjoyed this thread!

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

What is even the point of a (linguistics) PhD? profling.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-ev...

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What is even the point of a (linguistics) PhD?

normalize finding grad school inherently valuable

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 15/06/2026

Did you know you can play Wordle in the International Phonetic Alphabet? It’s called Heardle! Instead of guessing words using their spelling, you have to guess them using their pronunciations! joshuamandel.com/heardle/ #Wordle #phonetics #linguistics #language #pronunciation

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University of Essex's School of Language, Literature and Media @essexlangling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Africa Special Interest Group is hosting an African Linguistics Day on the theme of “The future of African languages”. All are welcome! Thursday 11th June 2026, 10:30-16:30 Room: NTC.1.02 Colchester Campus, University of Essex

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 24/05/2026

How to use a dictionary: ❌ “What’s the One True Meaning™ of this word?” ❌ “What’s the One True Pronunciation™ of this word?” ✅ “What are some different ways this word is used?” @dictionarycom.bsky.social @merriam-webster.com

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just published "Directional extensions in Chadic languages" by Joseph Lovestrand #cal #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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Samuel Akinbo @akinbosk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New Paper with Tongpan Rabo Fwangwar, titled "Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul". All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Today, we're shining a spotlight on Language & Linguistics - one of the founding departments of the University of Essex, and a very strong department on the national scale, and - as part of a cynical and short-sighted cost-cutting exercise - a department slated for 50% cuts by VC Frances Bowen.

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New paper out 🥳 Joint work with @danielaltshuler.bsky.social on monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey. I keep coming back to this reviewer’s comment: “Absolutely publishable as is… no suggestions for improvement (first time in 20+ years!)” 🤣🤣. It's here: journals.flvc.org/sal/article/...

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Monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey | Studies in African Linguistics

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Nice to see this pitch graph of Barayin ideophones from a documentary corpus used as an example of iconicity in ideophones

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Journée Négation en afroasiatique du 31 janvier 2026 I will be presenting (in English) on Negation in Barayin (Chadic) at 2 pm (UK time; 3 pm in Paris) cnrs.zoom.us/j/9566683656... ID de réunion: 956 6683 6566 Code secret: Rq5u7p

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University of Essex's School of Language, Literature and Media @essexlangling.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

In light of the university’s plans for structural change, we want to reassure our students that the proposal to cut nearly 50% of staff in the Department of Language and Linguistics will not impact their modules for the remainder of this academic year.

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University of Essex's School of Language, Literature and Media @essexlangling.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

University of Essex | Language and Linguistics | Departmental Seminar Syntax, prosody and information structure in Uyghur Michael Fiddler (University of California Santa Barbara) 🗓️ Thu 13 November 🕰️ 5PM *note the later time* 💻 Online via Zoom: essex-university.zoom.us/j/95446371646

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

CALL FOR COLLABORATORS The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project? See the website for details: epistemicity.net/call-collabo...

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Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Recently read and resonated with this 2001 talk (via LingTyp) by Scott DeLancey, even though the term "functionalist" was never used in my academic-social circles "What all functionalists have in common is a rejection of the notion of formalism as explanation." pages.uoregon.edu/delancey/sb/...

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01: On Functional Linguistics

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳 journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau... Pic. by Henry Tourneux

Anthropomorphic rocks near Loulou (Giziga area) © Henry Tourneux

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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 28/07/2025

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Interesting visualization of the historical spread of Chadic languages www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECU...

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History of the Chadic Languages

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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

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We invite interested speakers to submit abstracts for a panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber and Chadic, to be held at the upcoming Afrikanist*innentag from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Vienna. This panel aims to bring together experts to share insights and advancements on this topic.

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LINGUIST List 35.3379 FYI: Afrikanist*innentag 2025: Panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber (Amazigh) and Chadic

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