Linguistics

Despite its being a Middle Iranian language that has been extinct for a millennium, we've often mentioned Sogdian on Language Log. That's because of its intrinsic linguistic interest, but also because its speakers, as I have often said, were Eurasian Kulturvermittlers par excellence and outstanding socioeconomic entrepreneurs. Now we have a comprehensive, reliable grammar of […]

2023년 3월 23일, 한글문화연대에서 이건범 대표를 비롯하여 김동범 연구위원이 최현배 선생을 추모하며 남산(동국대학교 정문 옆)에 있는 외솔 최현배 선생 기념비를 찾아 꽃을 바쳤습니다. 외솔회가 주관하는 추모식에는 한글문화연대 이외에 여러 한글단체들이 모여 자리를 함께 헀습니다. - 외솔 최현배 선생은 일제강점기에 조선어학회를 이끌었고 해방 뒤에는 한글학회의 회장으로 일하시며 한글 전용 정착에 크게 이바지하였다. 1962년 건국훈장 독립장이 추서되었으며, 1970년 3월 23일에 돌아가신 뒤 국민훈장 무궁화장이 추..

Tales from Tanzania: Part 1 The “work” in fieldwork long precedes the “field” portion. Personal preparation—both physical and mental—and the painstaking pursuit of funding often occurs years before one has the opportunity to sit with a language speaker to begin the actual research. In my case, I began seeking research funds in 2019 but did not depart for the field until the very end of 2021 and only actually sat with a speaker in 2022. Over the next few weeks, I will share with you a bit of my

This scientific network aims at bringing together scholars from all over the world who have been working on Postclassical Greek from different, but especially linguistic, perspectives. Moreover, it seeks to bridge the distance between philological and linguistic approaches regarding the study of Ancient Greek. The next meeting will focus on the language of the New Testament and the Septuagint, hosting two input talks by Prof. Trevor Evans (Macquarie University - Sydney) and Prof. Liana Tronci (

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From Taiwan News (3/25/23), by Keoni Everington: "Taiwanese 'Hello Kitty' English-Chinese dictionary has 70 'egregious errors' Publisher ACME Cultural Enterprise Co has admitted errors but not recalled dictionaries" Cover of dictionary, example of misspelling. (Eryk Smith photo) The article presents photographic evidence of such errors, such asncluding mis-spellingrice as "rest", and many typos,wrong parts of […]

2023년 3월 26일 정재환의 우리말 비타민 ▶선생님 계세요 [박재역의 맛있는 우리말] 110 계시다와 있으시다

We are happy to announce the launch of the annual Fund Drive Lottery! Every week we will be raffling off fantastic book titles donated by our supporting publishers! Every donor, no matter the size of donation, will be entered to win that week’s title! The titles up for grabs this week are from our friends at the Gallaudet University Press: “Signed Language Corpora” https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/signed-language-corpora.html Walter de Gruyter GmbH: “The Development of the Concept of SMELL in Am

We are very happy to announce a new release of the WoPoss corpus containing a selection of Latin inscriptions of the Republican age, annotated with regards to modality according to the WoPoss guidelines, along with the adding of about 90 entries to the Epigraphic Database Rome (EDR). The annotated inscriptions are accessible here: https://woposs.unine.ch/search.html. A complete list of the available inscriptions can be found here: https://woposs.unine.ch/corpus.html. This achievement was made p

The language question in Ukraine goes back centuries. It is deeply rooted in the history of old empires and Ukraine’s position as the borderland between the West and the East.

From Rostislav Berezkin, who teaches at Fudan University: The place where I stay is called Qibao town, now Minhang district of Shanghai. The name means "Seven Treasures". It comes from the name of the Buddhist temple called Qibaosi. Legend says that the temple was built by the Lu family to commemorate Lu Ji* and Lu […]