Spotted in a taxi in Lhasa on #internationalmotherlanguageday2022 "Keep in Mind to speak the mother tongue, can ride for free". #Tibet

Sociolinguists should get together and combine all their recordings of people saying 'I don't really have an accent' in all the different accents

Feel there is something very wrong about this adverb ranking in Mandarin from Cinque’s book

Is there any compositional semantics work done on nominal TAMs?

I feel so privileged to be a speaker of a language with 8 tones (my Wu variety)

The more I read Mandarin literature the more I doubt whether Mandarin is truly my L1…

Usually I am only a Jpop person but I have been so addicted to old Kpop songs (80s-90s) these few days

Advice for political correctness you didn't ask me but important: When meeting someone from China, or of Chinese descent, don't ever ask 'Do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?' Ask, 'Which language do you speak?' If they've said they speak Chinese - 'Which variety do you speak?'

Modality is hard yet so fun