John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Berik (Tor Family, western Papua) has incredibly cool time and space inflection. gives us words like: tiel - “I came from the west ( a long time ago)” Pictured: Berik man, Hanok Borom 040
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Unnecessarily anti-Irish intro to Hamilton Walks 010
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026analysis of declining linguistics jobs in USA 😬 030
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I tried making a joke to the Swiss parking inspector, „Es gibt auch Regeln für Gandalf“. This did not go well. 110
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 20/11/2025my understanding of semantics comes from Guess Who 020
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Our Anthropological Linguistics group at Uni Zurich has a webpage now: www.isle.uzh.ch/en/AnthroL.h... 0113
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 11/11/2025current advertising campaign in Switzerland: "Lesen macht sexy" = "Reading makes (you) sexy." www.google.com/url?sa=i&url... 231
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Just going down to the shop for some viral chocolate 020
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Quite a few neighbourhood koalas in Adelaide hills, but still you can here my niece asking, „Do koalas live in this world?“ 160
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 20/12/2024the Terrible Maps account has discovered Germanic and popular fascination with colexification 0112
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 14/12/2024the title may not set everybody’s heart beating, but this is packed with grammatical goodies. Could be an unexpected stocking-filler 150
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 11/11/2024come study counting systems, its fun! (Dwyer & Minnegal 2016) 050
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 24/08/2024An appropriate ending to a short elicitation session 010
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 17/08/2024Thankyou to the Berik people for a lovely first visit to their land. Me and my friends from University Cenderawasih enjoyed the hospitality and learning about the Berik language. We hope to see you again! 110
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 11/08/2024“Only eat here at the place YA GUYS, you can’t carry it home” 030
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 07/07/2024(Swiss) German dog signs use 1st or 2nd person. An important sociolinguistic finding. 020
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 25/03/2024Do you have any favourite visualisations in linguistics? I like this visualisation of the English "noun" category from Crystal 1967 (even though it can take a while to decipher, and has at least one typo) 010
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 05/12/2023This sign is useful if you want to go to ZURICH 061
John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 26/10/2023There are few things as cute as little European toy trains 000
