http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ My blog about linguistics en Vox Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:43:21 +0100 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:43:21 +0100 One of the typologically puzzling things about Arabic, and Semitic languages in general, is that /i/ and /u/ very often contrast with /a/, but hardly ever with each other. This is usually an indication that these are allophones, but this explanati... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123f17408e1860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> arabic proto-semitic semtic proto-berber proto-afro-asiatic http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:09:22 +0200 That's right after 3 years and a bit, I am now officially a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. Yay me, and yay for shameless self-promotion! So I finished my final Bachelor Thesis with a score of 9/10, that is to say, pret... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddd9c282860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics thesis indo-european bachelor thesis consonant gradation http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:15 +0200 Recently I've been doing a class on fieldwork, in this class we have an informant who speaks Minangkabau, a Malay dialect spoken by about 5 million people around Padang (which was recently hit by quite a severe earthquake). Last week it was my tu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75601240b68ef89860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> dutch indonesian malay minangkabau bargoens http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:12:53 +0200 As the title says, I am often perplexed by afro-asiatic. I've learned some Arabic and Hebrew, followed a class on comparative semitic, I have a (hardly looked at) book on Egyptian, and I'm currently following a class on Riffian Berber and general ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123f167602b860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> egyptian berber indo-european semitic afro-asiatic http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:19:35 +0200 The 19th of october, that will be the date that I will be defending my Bachelor thesis on Consonant Gradation in the Verbal System of Proto-Indo-European. This defense is open to public, if any reader happens to be around and wants to come, he is... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddbd9318860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> bachelor thesis consonant gradation http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:48:45 +0200 Hey guys! Long time no see. My Bachelor thesis was eating a lot of time, combined with work on the Greek Etymological Dictionary and me just simply enjoying my holiday. But I'm back, with this word that has been bothering me for some time now. Th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123dda283ac860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> english linguistics dutch germanic sanskrit indo-european causative stem-extension http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-funny-prescriptivism.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-funny-prescriptivism.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-funny-prescriptivism.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:47:38 +0200 The other day I had a discussion about the Dutch verb willen 'to want'. It is a funny verb, because it formally has two past tenses. Both wou and wilde. I was watching a movie in which the form wou was used in the subtitles and the person who I w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-funny-prescriptivism.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d756011016bf2666860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics germanic indo-european prescriptivism http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-magnetic-fields.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-magnetic-fields.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-magnetic-fields.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 29 May 2009 12:58:48 +0200 Not sure if any of you ever saw this, but there's a band called The Magnetic Fields who did a song on Ferdinand de Saussure, which is cool enough for me to justify posting it here. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-magnetic-fields.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75601101652f88c860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics indo-european de saussure http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/she-wolves-and-godesses.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/she-wolves-and-godesses.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/she-wolves-and-godesses.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 21 May 2009 18:43:08 +0200 She-Wolves and Godesses in Sanskrit are and odd bunch. You have two types of ī-stems in Sanskrit (and also in Indo-european) the hysterodynamic and proterodynamic ones. vṛkī- 'she-wolf' is one of the Hysterodynamic ones (which is quite rare). no... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/she-wolves-and-godesses.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75601101644d976860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sanskrit syncope indo-european indo-aryan http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/dutch-linguistic-purism.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/dutch-linguistic-purism.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/dutch-linguistic-purism.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 17 May 2009 17:33:06 +0200 One of the great annoyances about the Dutch language, is that the definition of the 'correct' standard languages is rather different from what we actually speak. This has to do with the standardisation of the Dutch language when the first bible tr... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/dutch-linguistic-purism.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75601101685e187860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> dutch prescriptivism