David Erschler

I haven't seen any ! (Though in an alternative universe where I'd have had unlimited time I'd rather learn Amharic or Tigrinya)

It's literally a scene from Nabokov's Pnin. (Minus the intent to scan it, of course)

"Elder Avestan" irresistibly suggests me that its speakers had something to do with elder trees

This is what casual antisemitism in Western academia looks like -- of two sides of the conflict, only one is deemed worthy of sympathy. (The answer to a direct question was of course along the lines "I wish peace to all the children, I haven't mentioned other conflicts either")

Что такое нафоид?

In (some varieties of) German, I believe, wo 'where' has become an all-purpose relativizer. Why would English be any worse? :)

Alas (it doesn't seem this is the only typo...)

There's an interview with me on youtube, which I've never listened to -- exactly to prevent that sad outcome

Is there any compelling reason to assume that these would be texts? :)

Is he serving something to her raw? :)

Modification by depictives: In favor of a binding-based account Author(s): Erschler, David | Abstract: In this paper, I use the properties of depictives in Digor and Iron Ossetic, two closely related Iranian languages of the Caucasus, to argue in favor of binding-...

My paper about how to analyze the relationship between a depictive and its possible hosts (i.e. between "Tom," "David," and "drunk" in the sentence "Tom met David drunk") appeared in Masha Polinsky's Festschrift
escholarship.org/uc/item/38w5...

I'm not sure it amounts to much as a grammar tbh :)

Abkhaz has extra symbols too (it retained the 19 c Cyrillic, the Soviet time Cyrillic scripts were more standardized) ҩ and ҿ, for instance

Abaza grammar in Abkhaz

Набор "Юный хирург" 🪓🪚

TIL I learn that the Laz for Istanbul is p'oli, which apparently is just πόλις. (Cf. the old Iron Ossetic word for Tbilisi, Kalak = the Georgian kalak-i 'city')

Oops, I honestly thought it was something he made out of ἐργον :)

Looks like a lot of ergatives :)

А где это? Я только в эритрейских кварталах бывал, не знал, что есть другие этнические

Then it makes even more sense -- the topic is clitic-doubled

Notes on Wackernagel’s Law in the language of the Rigveda Notes on Wackernagel’s Law in the language of the Rigveda was published in Studies in Memory of Warren Cowgill (1929-1985) on page 38.

At any rate, topics are often excluded from the calculation of the Wackernagel position, see e.g. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

I am not sure where the DPs get their accusative from -- is the dative enclitic not the argument of the verb?

Happy New Year! С Новым годом! გილოცავთ ახალ წელს! ხოჩა შოშხუ̂ა̈მ ჩი̅ს! მიგახვამანთ ახალ წანას! Нæуæг анзи хуарзæнхæ уæ уæд! Ног азы хорзæх уæ уæд! Շնորհավոր Նոր տարի՜ Guten Rutsch! Bonne année ! Gelukkig nieuwjaar! !נובי גוד שמח

An almost final version of a paper about how in the course of history of Ossetic, focus movement gave rise to dedicated movement of negative indefinites. It's embarrassing to say when I gave the first talk on this topic...

lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...

Pretty much anything, I'd say :) (It's great that he's working on this!)

Although Dravidian languages (even the 4 largest ones) are in a completely different league in this respect

There's bizarrely little published on Armenian (in proportion to the accessibility of speakers)

On the Positional Distribution of an Armenian Auxiliary: Second‐Position Clisis, Focus, and Phases This paper investigates the positional distribution of an auxiliary clitic in Eastern Armenian in informationally marked sentences. The paper builds on previous work on the distribution of the auxili...

I mean, a VP _in_ a larger clause. I confused Persian with Armenian, sorry. I had this paper in mind onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mine is consistently French, more fine-grained analyses vary across attempts, here's the last one