My intellectual crush on Toki Pona has kept me busy for the whole past year. Because why stop it with the linguisticksing when leaving the office, eh? As mentioned previously on this blog, I’ve been working off-hours on an analysis of its not quite so simple syntax. After three thorough revisions of the text now, I’m halfway confident that the survey contains mostly sensible analyses that are reasonably argued, and I hope intelligibly so. 😅 ...
I had been working on a Ph. D. in German Language for what feels like forever—more accurately, for seven years since February of 2017. As the proverb goes, “Good things come to those who wait,” so last month, the revised version of my thesis has finally been published by Language Science Press’ Advances in Historical Linguistics series. Carsten Becker. 2024. Genusresolution bei mittelhochdeutsch beide: Eine Analyse im Rahmen der Lexical-Functional Grammar (Advances in Historical Linguistics 1). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10451456 (🔓). [Worldcat] ...
A Grammar of Ayeri is available from Amazon now, too, so I am assuming you can now indeed order print copies through the regular book trade as well as straight from Lulu.com. 🤓❤️📘 (2018-11-14) If you’ve visited the Grammar page or the Grammar project’s GitHub Codeberg page recently, you will have noticed that I finally decided to publish a version 1.0 of A Grammar of Ayeri on October 1st. While this is a big step forward that took me some courage, I didn’t announce it in a big way, because I have reason to make a somewhat bigger announcement still today. ...