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2026

24 Jun: SSM 2026 Conference

I recently attended the annual conference of the Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) in Barcelona. Joyce was presenting a paper about our recent work automating subcategory coding for implicit.. (more)

23 Feb: Austroasiatic linguistics YouTube channel

Most of my fieldwork research on minority languages has been conducted within the Austroasiatic (AA) family. This is a group of languages spoken by diverse peoples across South & Southeast Asia, and w.. (more)

02 Feb: Word order from corpora: the taggedPBC (new paper)

My interest in languages has led to some interesting places, working on languages from different families in various contexts. Most recently I’ve been curious about the ways that languages develop ove.. (more)

2019

12 Sep: ICAAL 7 Proceedings volume

Planting rice near Jowai, NE India At the end of last year the ICAAL 7 proceedings volume was published by University of Hawai’i Press as a special issue of the Journal of the South-East Asian Lingui.. (more)

2017

23 May: Backing Up with Git and the Cloud

My next post was intended to be about streamlining a workflow by using various LaTeX authoring tools and a bibliography manager, but last week my Mac died. It is an older computer admittedly (from 201.. (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)

18 Jul: Himalayan Languages Symposium

Yesterday afternoon I gave a talk at the Himalayan Languages Symposium, which was held this year at NTU. It’s the 20th meeting, and has generally focused on languages of the Himalayan region, which is.. (more)

20 Jun: Linguistic Tools

This past week I’ve been attending a workshop on the linguistic notion of Affectedness that my co-supervisor Frantisek Kratochvil organized. It has really helped me think about possible ways this feat.. (more)

2013

31 May: Bangkok SEALS

I’ve been in Bangkok for the last few days, attending the SouthEast Asian Linguistics Society conference here at Chulalongkorn University. The campus is in the center of Bangkok and rather easy to get.. (more)