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welt.bsky.social

20 October 2026 18:41

Old Japanese mi₂ "winnow" seems an Ainuic loanword as its internal etymology is unclear. Proto-Ainuic *mu "rice bran" is incorporated by *uy "to screen (vi)" (as seen in uype "dust) into *mu-uy "rice_bran-screen." Functional conversion makes intransitive *mu-uy into a noun easily.

Olivier Morin

oliviermorin.bsky.social

20 October 2026 18:30

New preprint! Computational Humanities needs falsifiable theories. With 25 Paris-based researchers who share the same ambitions for the field and had an exciting conversation. zenodo.org/records/2349...

Enrico R. Crema

ercrema.bsky.social

15 October 2026 18:40

Excited to share a new paper where Peter Jordan, Junzo Uchiyama, Mitushuri Kuwahata, @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, Ari Junno, and I explored the demographic impact of the Kikai-Akahoya eruption in prehistoric Japan, one of the largest volcanic events in the Holocene www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Johann-Mattis List

lingulist.de

15 October 2026 18:39

Finally out, we will try to improve it further, but you can test it already now, our Database of Cross-Linguistic Partial Colexifications (CLIPS) at clips.digling.org

Simon J. Greenhill

simongreenhill.bsky.social

15 October 2026 05:46

Every few years someone notices that languages borrow words and declares the tree model dead. It has outlived everyone who has made that announcement so far. #linguistics