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2026

06 Oct: Prehistory in Northeast India (new paper)

“Βut still beyond this, immediately under the north, at a certain point, where the exterior sea terminates, lies a city called Τhina, not on the coast, but inland, from which both the raw material.. (more)

30 Aug: Linguistic mapping: overlapping polygons with points

I recently had a colleague ask me about how to represent language areas for one language group alongside other languages spoken in the area. The observation was that many languages with a small number.. (more)

2014

29 Jul: Deictic Demonstratives (Contd.)

In my last post I discussed the concept of deixis and illustrated deictic demonstratives in Pnar. Pnar’s deictic demonstrative system combines gender clitics with largely distance-based deictic morp.. (more)