What do words like waddle, slobber, tingle, oink, and zigzag have in common? These words sound funny, but they are also iconic, with forms that resemble aspects of their meanings. In a new…
This post originated as a twitter thread. 1 One of my favourite micromoments in music: the creak at 1:15 in…
Google Scholar is useful, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value. Case in point: the power couple Prof. Et Al and Dr. A. Author, whose profiles I created following Scholar’s recommended settings (and a bit of manual embellishment). If you have a Scholar profile, make sure you don’t let Scholar update the publication list automatically. If you’re looking at somebody else’s profile, take it with a big pinch of salt, especially when they have a reasonably common name or when messy entries or weird citation distributions indicate that it is being automatically updated.
Gek op cross-overs van kunst en wetenschap, muziek en experiment? Ik ook. Daarom organiseer ik met mijn collega’s Tessa Verhoef…
Slides for a presentation given at the ECSITE 2013 Annual Conference on science communication. I spoke in a session convened…
I stumbled on a paper which is titled (according to the journal metadata and countless secondary sources) Grammatically Judgments and Second…
Food writer Molly Watson from Gastronomica provides us with an update of Bourdieu’s food space, where different types of food…
Last year’s post on the Great Minds of the 21st Century award continues to attract attention from people who want…
Found this gem in a review of Paul de Wolf’s (1971) The Noun Class System of Proto-Benue-Congo: This work falls…
There you are, author of such groundbreaking works as The African Origins of Classical Civilisation, Maori: The African Evidence, and Who were the Minoans?: an African answer. You now want to solve the Basque enigma once and for all, and since the general thrust of your work is to link everything to Africa one way or another you set out to discover that Basque is in fact a Niger-Congo language. A look at the rich lexical material in Westermann (1927) provides ample inspiration. Let’s pick one of the Togo Remnant Languages, you think — after all, Basque is sort of remnant too. Akpafu. Euskara. Hey, why not. Let’s just see what we can do… no-one’s going to notice, right?
Just got this letter, on official-looking paper with an official-looking stamp: Dear Mr. Dingemanse: You have been nominated to appear…
“See what I just did? Made another me.” Darwin (Marvel Comics), panel from X-Factor issue 37. There is a very…
It is no news that people are animals, especially not this Darwin Year. But normally that something we say of…
In pursuit of early written sources about Kawu I came across a useful summary of explorations in the Volta Basin…
Semantic cookies are sold in Akpafu-Mempeasem, central Volta Region, Ghana (among other places) Fieldwork sessions on lexical semantics have become…
Mt. Iso in PNG, 12 miles southwest of Sumo, east of the Catalina River. Diuwe is spoken between sea level…