Linguistics

This is a garrulous little creature who vainly and profoundly likes to enunciate its own name. Lots more gecko gabbing here: Note the wide range of vocalizations and verbalizations. The Neo-Latin gekko and English 'gecko' stem from Indonesian–Malaysian gēkoq, it is a Malay word borrowed from Javanese, from tokek, which imitates the sounds that some […]

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A visit to Ukraine and Russia would allow my son to see that his mother’s native language wasn’t a quirk of hers but something normal for millions of people.

This is a recent instagram post of the Vietnamese singer Suni Ha Linh. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SUNI (@sunihalinh) The translation is accurate. búbèi dìngyì de huā 不被定义的花 "undefined flower(s) / non-defined flower(s) / flower(s) that is/are not defined" Who knows what she meant? Unspecified? Random?   Selected readings "Off […]

When: 9th May 2024, 08:00 am BST / 04:00 pm KST 2024년 5월 9일 오후 4시 Book your place / 참가신청 http://tiny.cc/OED-Korea-2024 The OED is a powerful online linguistic resource, providing a vast array of language data alongside the features and tools essential for producing the highest quality academic research and teaching. In 2023, the dictionary migrated to a brand new platform with enhanced functionality and features. OED는 강력한 언어학관련 정보 자원입니다. 최상의 교육과 연구를 위해 다양한 데이터를 편리한 기능 및 도구와 함께 제공하고 있으며 2023년

[Reminder: deadline, April 30, 2024] Guest editors Joyhanna Yoo (California State University, Sacramento) and Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore) Description The explosive impact of the global popularization of cultural genres from South Korea has come to be known as the Korean wave, or hallyu, encapsulating various facets of daily life, from music and television to fashion, film, and culinary trends. The rapid and broad diffusion of genres associated with the Korean wave has large

Jennifer Rubin, "Has Trump’s family abandoned him? I’m answering your questions", WaPo 4/24/2024: Q: Are Republicans the party of no? Why can't Republicans say yes? Instead of getting a border deal in exchange for Ukraine funding, they got nothing. A (Jennifer Rubin, Opinion Columnist): Yup. They are the masters at cutting off their noses despite […]

Speaking of Korean translation and AI, as we did in recent posts (see "Selected readings"), let us take a look at the latest developments in Korea: New AI-based translation tools make their way into everyday life in Korea AI equipped with natural language processing software, which allows it to interpret human language in various contexts, […]

신도시 조성지구 '에코델타동' 작명 추진이유 물어보니 "전국 처음 해보고 싶어서"부산시 강서구청에서 신도시 조성 지구의 법정동 이름을 ‘에코델타동’이라는 국적 불명의 외국어로 지으려 한다. 강서구의회에서 반대했지만 구청은 이를 강행하여, 현재 검토 승인 요청이 부산시청 자치분권과를 거쳐 행정안전부 자치분권지원과에 가 있다.2023년 12월 8일에 한글문화연대와 한글학회를 비롯해 75개 국어단체가 반대 의견을 밝혔음에도 12월 26일에 강서구 지명위원회에서는 ‘에코델타동’으로 새로운 법정동 이름을 결정하였..

The seventh talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 29th April 2024 at 5pm BST. Teresa Paccosi (University of Trento/Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) will present on “Tracing the evolution of sensory language: a diachronic frame-based analysis for the semantics of taste and smell in English.” Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 26th April and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA

We are happy to share that an updated version (2.0) of the INEL Kamas Corpus is published at https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/13882! Gusev, Valentin; Klooster, Tiina; Wagner-Nagy, Beáta. 2023. “INEL Kamas Corpus.” Version 2.0. Publication date 2023-12-31. http://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-FC25-4. Archived at Universität Hamburg. In: The INEL corpora of indigenous Northern Eurasian languages. https://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-F45A-1 It contains the folklore texts collected by Kai

Ever wondered where everyday things got their names? Or where words come from? Language is a powerful thing, creating new words all the time.

Si Nae Park came to Penn last Thursday (4/18/24) to talk about kugyŏl / gugyeol / kwukyel 구결 口訣 ("oral glossing"). Gugyeol, or kwukyel, is a system for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean. It was used chiefly during the Joseon dynasty, when readings of the Chinese classics were of paramount social […]

Daron Acemoglu, "The Simple Macroeconomics of AI": ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates claims about the large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI’s effects, working through automation and task complementarities. It establishes that, so long as AI’s microeconomic effects are driven by cost savings/productivity improvements at the task […]

학교 동아리명 대원고등학교 늘푸른 서울대학교사범대학부설중학교 인공지능 작가반 우신고등학교 교지편집반 염광고등학교 바로세움 배재고등학교 언론반 우신고등학교 빛글 원묵고등학교 원묵방송부 한양대학교사범대학부속고등학교 한대부고 방송반 한천중학교 한천 헤윰 채드윅 국제학교 언어보존

Samuel Bray, "Cruel AND Unusual?", Reason 4/21/2024: On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. One thing I will be watching for is whether the justices in their questions treat "cruel and unusual" as two separate requirements, or as one. The Eighth Amendment […]

I got an echo of Saturday's post about chatbot pals, from an article yesterday in Intelligencer — John Herrman, "Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You" ("The company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere"): Meta has an idea: Instead of ever leaving its apps, why not stay and chat with a bot? […]

Is monolingualism a normal, natural, necessary state of affairs for human beings? Can you imagine a world in which there were only one language? How is that even possible? These are questions that come to mind after reading Gina Anne Tam's deeply thought provoking "Mandarin Hegemony: The Past and Future of Linguistic Hierarchies in China", […]