Via Language Log, a nice tutorial titled Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics [PDF, 13,1 Mb] by Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn,…
Let me draw your attention to the newly added quote at the top right of this page: “…they are playthings,…
Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…
In a previous post I have outlined the history of the term ideophone. This post takes on three common misunderstandings…
The 51st installment of Four Stone Hearth is up at Clashing Culture, featuring an interesting mishmash of anthropological topics. For…
The steady influx of vocabularies of ‘exotic’ languages during the nineteenth century caused a veritable flowering of comparative philology in…
drizzle by +lyn (Flickr) Without wanting to detract from the supreme rendering of bíààà in the previous post, here is…
The card arrived in the mail today, so I can now call myself the lucky owner of this rendition of…
Reading about the two translations of the Confucian Ta Hio by Ezra Pound, the earlier one first published in 1928…
More from the missed-while-I-was-in-the-field dept.: back in August, artisan jewelry shop My Word! featured a beautiful pair of earrings decorated…
I missed it back in March, probably because I was in the field: a delightful post on ideophones in Somali…
Semantic cookies are sold in Akpafu-Mempeasem, central Volta Region, Ghana (among other places) Fieldwork sessions on lexical semantics have become…
Part two of our series on early sources (part one is here) is dedicated to Reverend O. E. Vidal, M.A.…
The Ideophone has found a new home at https://ideophone.org/. Links to the old pages should still work, but I would…
In 1968 Bernd Heine published the first comparative study of the so-called Togorestsprachen. Around the same time Kevin Ford and…
There are several ideophones in Siwu that have to do with silence. Here are a few examples: mì-lo kanananana! 2PL-be.silent…
Exciting news for Zotero users: synchronization has arrived. After some months of closed beta-testing, a public Sync Preview version was…
The earliest description of Kawu (Akpafu) I have found so far is quite special in that it was written by…
A visualization of the previous two posts on Many Eyes and Siwu ne Because recursivity is a Good Thing, here…
Lots of readers looked at the challenge I posted last week (my blog statistics say more than 450 views for…