Fellow linguists, what would you call this suffix?

observe + SUF `place of observation'

tie + SUF `object for tying'

ornament + SUF `place of ornament' (where one adorns things)

do + SUF `way of doing'

As part of our work on Cariban languages and archaeology, and Cariban contact with Tupian,
Fernando O. de Carvalho, Tiago Tresoldi, and I have just published the Cariban Lexical Database in CLDF: 32 varieties, 310 concepts, very good cognacy judgement.

zenodo.org/records/110040…

🥹 so happy to hear this

Our symposium (with Kathrin Nägele and Bruno Barreto)

Migraciones, expansiones e interaciones en las tierras bajas de sudamérica,

has been accepted at the EIAA eiaa.uniandes.edu.co

in Colombia next September.

Obsidian blades with food traces reveal first settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago ⛏️🏝️🌎 livescience.com/archaeology/ob…

The most beautiful picture of the Bororo (Brazil). It was taken by the photographer of the Comissão Rondon, Major Luiz Thomaz Reis (1879-1940), em 1916. (Source: Instagram @boe_eno_moto)

They played important role in the work of Lévi-Strauss, who visited them in the 20's.

Modern Linguistics in Ancient India by John J. Lowe
An accessible introduction to ancient Indian linguistics, this book assesses the impact of Indian linguistic thought on Western linguistics.
📚 cup.org/3TivqDy

La Nación / Realizarán seminario internacional sobre uso de la lengua guaraní en la región lanacion.com.py/pais/2024/03/2…

It was great to participate in the discussion panel of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries in PROPOR2024!

Great organization, beautiful building, and amazing people!

‘From the Ashes’ exhibition is helping Indigenous communities in the Amazon Rainforest | CNN cnn.com/style/from-the…

.Radek Sikorski setting the record straight at the un security council today. on the 2nd anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine, an essential watch. please take the time.

Présent au Danemark depuis 1689, un manteau du peuple tupinamba va rentrer au Brésil lemonde.fr/international/…

Our talk on Cariban languages and archaeology in Cologne next week:
archaeologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/aktuelles/vera…

jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Reflections on the study of language
An interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

Newspaper article on Folha on our Tupi-Guarani phylogeny (hat tip to Fabrício 🇺🇦 and the others :) www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2023/1…

Check out our review of the complex dynamics surrounding the Tupi expansion, one of the greatest demographic movements in the late Holocene of America and arguably one of the least studied. Marcos Castro e Silva, PhD 🇧🇷 Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) USP - Universidade de São Paulo
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

A new paper! Glossa-OA @[email protected] ZAS Semantics & Pragmatics ZAS Berlin

The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German doi.org/10.16995/gloss…

Linguistics job at Tübingen University:
linguistlist.org/issues/34-3242/

Coming Thursday I’ll give a talk on ‘The Indo-Anatolian homeland and the Anatolian trek’ at a one-day Anatolian workshop at the Swedish Institute in Athens.
All are welcome, either live at the institute or through Zoom, see details below:

sia.gr/en/articles.ph…

It's out!! 😁 (See link below: Available in e-version since Oct. 19th, and in print from Nov. 2nd)
Want to win a free signed copy? Retweet this and on Nov. 2nd (9am, french time) I'll pick one out at random ☺️
(Idea borrowed from Rob Drummond)
cambridge.org/core/books/lin…