I just got back from Japan. Because of an early flight out, I booked an overnight stay at Narita Airport…
Gisteren was ik op de eerste vakconferentie Wetenschapscommunicatie in de Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek in Rotterdam. Samen met een aantal collega’s…
Gek op cross-overs van kunst en wetenschap, muziek en experiment? Ik ook. Daarom organiseer ik met mijn collega’s Tessa Verhoef…
Just a heads-up to let interested readers know of a newish article on the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones by yours…
Last year Sabine Reiter defended an interesting PhD thesis on ideophones in Awetí, a Tupian language spoken in the Upper…
Voor het Kennislink Vragenboek beantwoordde ik de vraag: “Waarom roep je ‘au!’ bij plotselinge pijn?”. Dat is kennelijk een vraag…
The world’s many endangered languages are often characterized as “unwritten” and “oral” languages. Both of these terms reveal the language…
Slides for a presentation given at the ECSITE 2013 Annual Conference on science communication. I spoke in a session convened…
No matter how large or complex a PhD thesis, it should be possible to present an outline of the main…
“A struggle for life is constantly going on among quotations in academic writings. The better, the shorter, the easier forms…
I stumbled on a paper which is titled (according to the journal metadata and countless secondary sources) Grammatically Judgments and Second…
With the help of the Radboud University and MPI Nijmegen librarians I’ve been tracking down an obscure but historically important…
Magritte’s best known work by far is of course his drawing of a pipe with the text Ceci n’est pas une…
Note to readers: A version of this argument has been written up and published as: Dingemanse, Mark. 2015. “Ideophones and…
One of the most common word-processing related task for academics is to generate PDF versions of documents — for sharing…
In Kawu on the very final day of my 2012 fieldtrip, I heard something unusual. Some people talked about a…
This weekend, at the annual Taalgala ceremony in Utrecht, I was awarded the AVT/Anéla Dissertatieprijs 2012 for my dissertation The Meaning and…