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Raúl Aranovich

@raul-aranovich.bsky.social
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Linguist, sailor, tinker, tailor. Professor of linguistics at the University of California Davis.

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Ruth Arr @wrooth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Fellow linguists! Will you be at the LSA in Philadelphia this week? Would you like to learn more about the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research while you're here? Come to our Open House Thursday afternoon! www.amphilsoc.org/cnair-open-h...?
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CNAIR Open House for LSA Attendees: Jan. 9, 2025 | American Philosophical Society
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at the American Philosophical Society is pleased to invite attendees of the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting to an Open House...
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 06/01/2025
the only accurate method
SCIENCE TIP You can distinguish an alligator from a crocodile by paying attention to whether the animal sees you later or in a while.
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Starkey Comics @starkeycomics.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Etymology fact of the week: "calque" is a loanword, while "loanword" is a calque. #etymology #language #linguistics
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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Soviet linguistics was dominated by Nikolai Marr (1864-1934), who would have turned 161 #OTD. His teaching, Marrism, was the linguistic adaptation of the Marxist materialist tenets and represented the official linguistic policy in the Soviet Union. 1/7 #Histlx
Nikolai MarrTitle page of one of Marr’s books
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I just came to the conclusion that AI is linguistics porn.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Some exiting news to announce: I have officially joined UC ANR (@ucanr.bsky.social)! In this new role, I'll continue to engage in weather & climate change research--but with a more explicit mandate to continue & expand my scientist-communicator role! [1/3] ucanr.edu/news/?rout...
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News & Events - Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
UCANR 2019- News & Events
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Very sad to have to share news of my old friend and colleague Bob Bayley's passing. He was a true scholar, mentor, and upright human being. I'll miss him a lot. utlinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/12/rip-...
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RIP Bob Bayley
RIP Bob Bayley   We are so sad to learn that Dr. Robert Bayley , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics , UC Davis, and an associate member of t...
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
From Nature's science book reviews, a topic we should debate. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How rich is too rich?
Where should society draw the line on extreme wealth? A fresh account sets out the logic and suggests how to redress inequality.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Hope Dawson is the 2025 recipient of the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the discipline and the Society throughout their career. Since 2002, Hope has copyedited and coordinated the journal Language. #linguistics
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Labov's obituary and remembrance page. #Labov #BillLabov #Sociolinguistics languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399...
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Language Log » Bill Labov
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Bill Labov, extraordinary sociolinguist, just passed away. He brought "to linguistics ... the belief that working class people have a lot to say, and that there is such a thing as being right or being wrong." #Labov #BillLabov #Sociolinguistics www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/HowI...
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How I got into Linguistics
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Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Know a historian who’s interested in a public history job? @scihistoryorg.bsky.social is hiring a Curatorial Fellow at our museum in Philly! 24-month term limited staff position, starts Sept ‘25, pays $55k/year with benefits + reloc asst. US work auth req. Apps (no letters) due Jan 15 More info:
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Science History Institute Fellowships
The Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Digging into the history of syntax, I keep learning about pioneers and glass-ceiling breakers like Jane J. Robinson (1918 – 2015), who had a distinguished career in computational linguistics. arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/06/j...
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Jane J. Robinson
On Thursday (the 8th) there will be a memorial for my old friend Jane J. Robinson at SRI International in Menlo Park CA (where she worked for 14 years, until her retirement in 1987), organized by R…
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I try to stay away from political posts, but this one is just too good: “I spoke to over 100 countries. You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are,” Trump said. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...
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The polio vaccine, Eric Adams and more media lawsuits: Donald Trump’s freewheeling Mar-a-Lago press conference
The president-elect covered a wide-range of topics in his first press conference since winning the 2024 election.
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Who knew? Hans-Jørgen Uldall was professor of linguistics at the Universidad de Tucumán, Argentina, after the war (1948-50)! "Necrologia / Conference on Yiddish Studies, New York, April 8-10, 1958" Phonetica, vol. 2, no. 1-2, 1958, pp. 126-126. doi.org/10.1159/0002...
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Necrologia / Conference on Yiddish Studies, New York, April 8-10, 1958
Article Necrologia / Conference on Yiddish Studies, New York, April 8-10, 1958 was published on January 1, 1958 in the journal Phonetica (volume 2, issue 1-2).
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Not used to making the news, but good thing I think if it brings focus to the problem--we're in a real fight, and Trump is trying to cow media; if papers choose "balance" over truth, they're helping to promote authoritarian rule. nypost.com/2024/12/06/m...
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LA Times columnist resigns, claims billionaire owner ‘curried favor’ with Trump: ‘Shameful capitulation’
The longtime senior legal columnist, who wrote for the LA Times for more than 15 years, announced his resignation on Thursday in his Substack newsletter.
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Sister 7 @dubeateo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🖤 #Frauenhass
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Someone with a spine. harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just...
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Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times
By Harry Litman
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Obituary for J. David Sapir. www.anthropology-news.org/articles/j-d...
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J. David Sapir - Anthropology News
1932–2024 Photo of David Sapir in New Hampshire by David Plowden J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of
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Aaron Broadwell @abroadwell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I have a coauthored chapter on Zapotecan languages in this volume. (Coauthored with the excellent Eric Campbell.) It took a very long time for this book to see the light of day! books.google.dk/books?id=1LI...
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The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser...
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.chstm.org/content/hist... Tuesday, December 10, 2024 6:00 am to 7:30 am PST Talk by Judy Kaplan (Science History Institute): "The Information Science of Linguistics". CHSTM Language Sciences working group. Please join us!
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History of the Language Sciences | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
These are my aunties, seriously! www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
WordNet wordnet.princeton.edu is a priceless NLP resource and general work on the English language (and semantics broadly). They used to have an online version that has been deprecated. does anyone know why?
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
_ ( ) _ (_` )_('> (__,~_)8 _YY_ <https://oldcompcz.github.io/jgs/joan_stark/tgiving.html>
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James McElvenny @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Clara Stockigt’s monumental study of early missionary grammars of Pama-Nyungan languages has appeared in open access with Language Science Press langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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Australian Pama­-Nyungan languages: Lineages of early description | Language Science Press
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A pair of daffynitions every day until I run out, number 24… Relief = what a maple tree does in spring Poetry = how you warn Edgar Allan Poe that he’s about to run into a tree
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 19/11/2024
The longest Etruscan text we have was preserved because the linen it was written on was recycled to wrap a mummy in the 3rd century BC. It may be the oldest surviving book in Europe and we still can’t really translate it.
The unwound mummy wrappings with clear text visible. The wrappings are red as though they were covered in blood (though I doubt this is the case)
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am teaching a freshman seminar on "Language, Cognition, and Crossword Puzzles". It's going to be fun! fys.ucdavis.edu/schedule
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I just recently became aware of the 1911 Report of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology. Fun to really see where all those bad definitions come from. ia902902.us.archive.org/28/items/ont...
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Stanford Dependency Parser fail. They knew we were going to try, so why not just hard-code it in?
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I love Project Gutenberg for many reasons. www.gutenberg.org
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I am a co-convener of the Working Group on the History of the Language Sciences at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Join us for our monthly meetings! www.chstm.org/content/hist...
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History of the Language Sciences | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Raúl Aranovich @raul-aranovich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you are interested in the history of the language sciences, follow the activities of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHOLS) naahols.wordpress.com
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NAAHoLS
North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences
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