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Rob Malouf

@robmalouf.bsky.social

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Linguist @ San Diego State University malouf.sdsu.edu

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Rob Malouf @robmalouf.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Image with mushroom cloud and text: It's 11pm. Do you know what your expert system just inferred?

Rob Malouf @robmalouf.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Timeline (1500–2000) showing the development of Hungarian -hAtnék: from potential conditional verbs (1500), through divergence and reanalysis of hAt-n-ék → hAtnék (1600–1700), to first nominal uses (1800) and increased productivity (2000). Two bars note concurrent obsolescence of complex tenses and the ik paradigm.

Rob Malouf @robmalouf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Really? I was still chalk+blackboard back then. i1.wp.com/www.lisarive...