Numeratives in the languages of Asia and beyond: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008754 Abstract: This paper gives an overview of some of the conceptual issues that have arisen in the literature on sortal numeral classifiers. I propose the term numerative and offer a clear definition of the concept for purposes of comparative and general linguistics. I note that it is not very helpful to define numeratives as kinds of “classifiers”, and that it is best to characterize numeratives in contrast to mensuratives (or measure words), even though many languages (especially in East and Southeast Asia) use a very similar construction for both. The proposed definition includes elements that also occur in other adnominal loci, so that the numerative concept may not be very natural, but this reflects the history and current state of research, which has been heavily influenced by Asian languages.
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Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases https://dlc.hypotheses.org/3690
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Vielfaltslinguistik-Konferenz in Münster, Juni 2025: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwissenschaft/forschung/vielfaltslinguistik7/index.html
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"Irrealis" can be defined as a comparative concept using a branching-time model – but we still need to formulate the predictions separately, I think. (Comment on a paper by Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinović, and Manfred Krifka.) https://dlc.hypotheses.org/3637
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Four typological plenary talks at DGfS 2025 in Mainz (March 4-7)https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=1038&page_id=
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The term "lexical item" has four different senses. My paper about this fourfold ambiguity is now out (in "Lexique", a journal published in Lille), and in this blogpost, I give a short overview and highlight the motivation for writing the paper. https://dlc.hypotheses.org/3549
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Looking forward to this MPI-EVA conference in early July 2024: "Linguistic and Cognitive Science Meet Diversity" https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/events/2024-lingcogsci-meets-diversity-workshop/#c52038
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Grammatical analyses are typically non-unique – but many linguists make this assumption. How we can do general-theoretical linguistics without presupposing uniqueness: https://dlc.hypotheses.org/3381
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"Minority Languages in European Societies" – summer school and conference in Turin, deadline February 15th
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My paper on "Types of clitics in the world's languages" has just been published (in the journal "Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads"): https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/16057
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This also concerns linguistics: "The realization that many published studies might be misleading, biased, or contain errors led to constructive dialogs and a number of reform efforts across disciplines..." – Bochynska et al. are trying to address a range of relevant issues: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m62j7p6
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Lockdown criticism is finally entering the American mainstream: Well-known journalists Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean highlight the many adverse effects of lockdowns (especially school closures) and note that their advantages are uncertain. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lockdowns-big-fail-joe-nocera-bethany-mclean-book-excerpt.html While "flattening the curve" may have been a reasonable goal, "that rationale was forgotten over time, and many people remained confined to their homes for a year or more — even after the vaccine became available."
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A new research centre for indigenous Peruvian languages, in collaboration with MPI-EVA Leipzig and NCCR Zurich https://evolvinglanguage.ch/a-new-research-station-for-amazonian-native-languages-in-peru/
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One problem with the Glottolog references is that the titles are "double-escaped", i.e. they have two curly braces around them to avoid decapitalization. But why do we need decapitalization in the first place? This seems to be needed only in a U.S. context, where titles are routinely capitalized (also in newspaper headlines). I feel that in science, we can simply ignore this strange habit, and never decapitalize.
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