Quite a few young enthusiasts or linguistics to be like me are fascinated with these beautiful languages.
Therefore, I hope that in the future we can still maintain this research enterprise in AD and continue to make it thrive. /END

The reason that I emphasize ‘TB languages’ is because this has been one of the Institute’s long research traditions since Hwang-Cherng Gong.
And in fact, currently few people have been working on TB langs in Taiwan, but actually… /1

The Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica is looking for a tenure(d/-track) position right now.

And, out of personal wish, if you specialize in Tibeto-Burman languages and want to experience life in Taiwan, this is a great opportunity!

The 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing will be held from November 7th to 9th at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei!

Languages of the World | Cambridge Aspire website Discover Languages of the World, 3rd Edition, Asya Pereltsvaig, HB ISBN: 9781108479325 on Cambridge Aspire website

Languages of the World by Asya Pereltsvaig

www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

Coming back here every once in a while, trying to see if the linguistics circle has been thriving here or not.

We accepted "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

I have the same Q as well. Even though the use of the term may have declined a lot during these decades, some people are still following the descriptive approach, and specify that their major discipline is descriptive linguistics.

*negative ones

Seriously, I hate being defined by others’ stereotypes

It just keeps making me frustrated to constantly received irrational voices from all over the world. Now I just want to find somewhere tranquil to look for some inner peace.

Does linguistics “bluesky” thrive here?

Don’t know how the algorithm here works. It seems that one must post regularly on both X and Facebook to get higher exposure.

In my new paper, I take stock of cross-linguistically common functions and expressions of counterfactuality.

You can download it here, or contact me.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A screenshot of the abstract of the paper “Non-core case marking in Batanic languages” by CJ Young, with keywords, DOI, and publication information.

My first ever journal paper! Terrified but so excited to see it in print. This is for the underdogs: Batanic langs & oblique case. Turns out the oblique does more and the locative does less than we think! Happy to bring Batanic to the fore of Austronesian linguistics! doi.org/10.1515/stuf...

(DM 📄)

In my poster, I will attempt to argue the ‘cross-domain’ (e.g. IE languages) vs. ‘domain-specific’ (e.g. Atayalic languages) distinction on the general functions of modals in a language (cf. Cheng 2013) is worth examining cross-linguistically.

This contrasts with modals in IE languages, which are well-known for their functions of denoting more than one type of modality in different contexts.

Gonna have my first ever academic poster presentation in next week’s ALT XV in Singapore, where I will argue that the modals in Toda Seediq and related Atayalic languages mostly exhibit the ‘domain-specific’ functions, i.e. denoting only a particular type of modaliy!

The 2006 version is my childhood memory and is perhaps more close to the original novel.