The September/October issue of Scientific American MIND features an article written by me and N.J. Enfield entitled “Universal Social Rules Underlie…
Where moderation is not utterly overstepped, the wealth of sound in languages can be compared to coloration in painting. The…
There is no doubt, from all points of sociological, or psychological analysis, and in any question of theory, the manner…
Words evolve not as blobs of ink on paper but in face to face interaction. The nature of language as…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
This weekend, at the annual Taalgala ceremony in Utrecht, I was awarded the AVT/Anéla Dissertatieprijs 2012 for my dissertation The Meaning and…
Slides for a plenary I gave at the Total Reduplication workshop organised by Daniela Rossi. The other plenary speakers were…
A quick heads up to note the publication of two nice studies of ideophones by Americanists Janis Nuckolls (BYU) and…
Just out: a review of ideophone research by yours truly, titled Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones, published in…
Slides for a plenary address delivered at the 2011 African Studies Day, organised by the Netherlands Association of African Studies.…
Ideophones, like so many things in life, are easy to identify but hard to define. Many researchers have grumbled about…
I’ve been reading Daniel Dor’s manuscript Language as a Communication Technology (available here), and found this observation on grammaticality judgements…