Category: Word order
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2026
In a previous post I showed a simple way to control for
language family and area with categorical variables in a
linear mixed model using Python. In a more recent post I
showed how we can plot languag..
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When working with languages, it is important to keep in mind
the context in which they exist. While “context” has many
different facets, a primary aspect is geography. Geographical
(and topographi..
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If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you
probably know that I’m interested in languages of the world.
The incredible diversity in linguistic structures found in the
roughly 7,000 wor..
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It’s that time of the semester where I’m in the throes of
assessing student work for classes and trying to submit
grades. One of my tasks has recently involved NLP projects
related to the *taggedP..
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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..
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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..
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2025
About a year ago I was looking for annotated texts to
investigate some questions I had about word order. My main
question was whether it was possible to extract word order
from corpora, but I realized..
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2019
Things have been quite busy over the last year or so, when I
last posted. My wife and I moved to Zurich with our 4-month
old, I helped organize a workshop on word order here at UZH, a
proceedings volu..
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2018
The last post was a bit of a brain dump to make sure I didn’t
forget a few lessons I learned, in part because I knew I was
quitting the job that involved doing ML type things. While I
was working ther..
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