#cfp
Special issue in "Perspectives": Language Contact through Translation in the History of Romance and Germanic Languages
15 May 2025: submission of abstracts
1 February 2026: submission of full papers
2027: publication date
#LanguageContact #Translation #TranslationStudies #TranslationHistory #RomanceLinguistics #RomanceStudies #linguistics
#Sprachkontakt #Übersetzung #Übersetzungswissenschaft #Romanistik #Linguistik
TIL that #Kenner, #Louisiana was originally called Cannes Brûlées, meaning burnt sugarcane. The French pronunciation is /kan bɾyle/ whereas Kenner is /kɛn əɹ/. It's hard to say what happened to the adjective as it was anglicized, but the sugarcane was preserved pretty well in there.
(Got this from the list of #colonial censuses in Zitomersky (1974) that has one for "Cannes Bruslees" in 1722.)
#linguistics #languagechange #French #English #languagecontact #NewOrleans #NOLA
I had no idea that, in #French, #DarthVader is called #DarkVador. It makes sense as both /θ/ and syllabic /ɹ/ would be difficult in French, but for a second I sort of took offense to the name change, lol
#StarWars #linguistics #phonetics #phonology #languagecontact
Archaeoethnologica: Sub-Indo-European Europe - Book / Europa Sub-Indo-europeia - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/europa-sub-indo-europeia-livro.html
#Palaeolinguistic #Linguistics #Indoeuropean #Languagecontact #Books #openaccess #IndoeuropeanStudies
Archaeoethnologica: Sub-Indo-European Europe - Book / Europa Sub-Indo-europeia - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/europa-sub-indo-europeia-livro.html
#Palaeolinguistic #Linguistics #Indoeuropean #Languagecontact #Books #openaccess #IndoeuropeanStudies
Archaeoethnologica: Sub-Indo-European Europe - Book / Europa Sub-Indo-europeia - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/europa-sub-indo-europeia-livro.html
#Palaeolinguistic #Linguistics #Indoeuropean #Languagecontact #Books #openaccess #IndoeuropeanStudies
Archaeoethnologica: Sub-Indo-European Europe - Book / Europa Sub-Indo-europeia - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/europa-sub-indo-europeia-livro.html
#Palaeolinguistic #Linguistics #Indoeuropean #Languagecontact #Books #openaccess #IndoeuropeanStudies
I don't speak #German, but I understand very well what the announcer says at 0:46: "Kabayel ist in top form."
I've previously posted about how much #English is used by announcers in #boxing in the Philippines, but I was not expected to hear this happen in #Germany, at least not for a phrase like this. Perhaps "knockout" or "round", common #nouns of a technical nature, but here we have a simple phrase.
Excited to be talking at #SECOL tomorrow about #French in the #linguisticlandscape of #StMartinville in #Louisiana.
"#Nonpareils" here is #English "#sprinkles". I was only familiar with "sprinkles" and "#jimmies" (in the NE).
In #French, I didn't have a word for sprinkles at all, so I guess it's "nonpareils" or, according to the dictionary, "#vermicelles", but there doesn't seem to be a word in #LouisianaFrench.
(Relatedly, #paintedbuntings are called "#passerins nonpareils" or "#Papes de #Louisiane" in #StandardFrench and simply "Papes" in #Louisiana.)
Ei voi toivo pettää! Alle Jahre wieder! The International Winter School of #Finno-Ugric studies will take place in Uppsala from 5 to 10 February 2024. More information at https://remodus.univie.ac.at/teaching-events/winter-school-2024/ .
#Uralic languages
#linguistics
#EndangeredLanguages
#LanguageRevitalization
#OldFinnish
#LanguageContact
The last couple episodes of #FeartheWalkingDead have Victor #codeswitching between #English and #German a lot with his new family. Plot-wise, it seems meant to drive home the idea that he's trying to create a new identity, but #linguistics -wise, there's no rhyme or reason to when the switches happen. They argue in both, get sentimental in both, make plans in both, etc.
#languagecontact #sociolinguistics #discourse #discourseanalysis #WalkingDead #horror
In the current season of #BigMouth, "The International Show" episode has a segment in #Kenya. It appears that they speak #Sheng during this portion, apparently a heavy mixture of #Swahili and #English, though I don't know this language and tried to deduce what was being spoken. I'm curious how accurate this was: the actors were #Kenyan but the #codeswitching was frequently intersentential rather than intrasentential as I could understand a lot of it.
«my #Latin friends give me a change in my #English» https://bit.ly/latinfriends
A very interesting post from a #Chinese person! 😃
#ScientificAmerican #SpringerNature #EnglishDialect #SouthFlorida #Florida #Linguistics #Miami #Miamians #Spanish #Calque #Calques #Language #Languages #Spanglish #Bear #BearBlog #LanguageLearning #LanguageContact
#Gamer talk in #French is a really great way to find ample #borrowing and #codeswitching. Sometimes, almost every other noun will be English even if there is a clear #translation (e.g., #any% when taking about #speedruns).
Also, why do #Klingons learn #English? They're one of the only races that sometimes speak don't speak English in the presence of other races, so they're not relying on a #universaltranslator when appearing to speak English.
I presented at the #LSA2023 on mouthing in signed languages, framing it as forms of #multimodal language contact. Slides can be found here:
https://fbisnath.github.io/bisnath-felicia_lsa2023.pdf
Related paper can be found here:https://psyarxiv.com/rxm7w/
Spotted "inventor extraordinary" rather than "inventor extraordinaire" in #Spiderman c1965. I was quite surprised to see there was a shift to the latter in American #literature and that it was relatively recent (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inventor+extraordinaire%2Cinventor+extraordinary&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=28&smoothing=3). Interesting case of #syntactic #borrowing where the #lexical borrowing lagged behind the post-nominal placement.
#languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #Marvel #comics
I'll be at the #LSA2023 presenting on mouthing as multimodal language contact in the #Morphology, Signed languages session (Jan 6th, 2:15-5:15 GMT-7) @linguistics #signlanguages #languagecontact
New here. Time for my #introduction post 👋 I'm a #PhD candidate (in the last stages) in the filed of #Historiography of #Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (#UAB). I have also been a visiting researcher at the Universität #Leipzig. I study how #Spanish was taught in the schools of #Catalonia in the 19th century through #schoolbooks. Also interested in #Lexicography, #History of #Education and #Languagecontact.
I devote my free time to #postcrossing ✉️ and #travelling 🌍.
