Alexander D. Smith 🚣 (Follow me on Bluesky)

Austronesian & Austro-Tai linguistics || Fudan University (复旦大学) || PhD: University of Hawai‘i || Editor: OLSP & PALI ||

[Calvin Jemarang @calvinjemarang]

1/ One of the longest-standing misconceptions about the Punan in Sarawak is that they were nomads living in trees. At the recent Sarawak Book Festival, this myth surfaced again when someone asked, “Oh, are they the people who live in trees?” 🤔

[Alexander D. Smith 🚣 (Follow me on Bluesky) @Austronesianist]

@amrandika The sound correspondences are actually irregular. Tagalog merged *z and *d, so Malay j usually corresponds to Tagalog d (or l). so it actually does look like a borrowing. At least in Tagalog.

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@csundita @oli_0331 ka:w is the regular reflex of *aku in Thai. Not totally sure of the history of ku: , but it could be an irregular historical variant.

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Support firefighting efforts led by local Dayak activists in Kalimantan to help protect the Bornean rainforest.

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I posted the same thing on twitter and threads. 55 likes on twitter compared to...zero on threads. lmao

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I just had my first European dissertation defense experience. Really interesting. What's more interesting though is the amazing dissertation defended by Jiang Wu, Malayic varieties of Kelantan and Terenggau. This is a very important and well done description. Congratulations!

[Alexander D. Smith 🚣 (Follow me on Bluesky) @Austronesianist]

I just had my first European dissertation defense experience. Really interesting. What's more interesting though is the amazing dissertation defended by Jiang Wu, Malayic varieties of Kelantan and Terenggau. This is a very important and well done description. Congratulations!

[Wesley Mark Lincoln @wesley_mlincoln]

And to end off, @Austronesianist presented an update on "History and Syntax of the Languages of Borneo", with @themitcho and @csommerlot, which combines documentation of three Borneo languages with an analysis of their morphosyntax!

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@avzaagzonunaada this triggers me every time I see it

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It was a pleasure being on this committee. This is such a well done dissertation I can't recommend it enough. Congrats Tamisha! 🥳

[Tamisha L. Tan @tamishaltan]

Belated update, but I defended my dissertation on the West Timoric language Amarasi and am starting a position this Fall at NTU in Singapore 😀

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Might as well grab @ austronesianist before anyone else does

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@avzaagzonunaada do you think that linguistic area effects can be inherited in populations that originste from a more compact are, giving a false impression of a huge area that was in reality once in a more reasonably confined area?

[Alexander D. Smith 🚣 (Follow me on Bluesky) @Austronesianist]

@avzaagzonunaada in some sense, isn't the presence of a Linguistic area itself evidence of contact?

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@avzaagzonunaada how big is too big of a geographical area for a linguistic area explanation of similarity

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Calls, 30th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association: 2nd Call for Papers: New abstract deadline: 15 May 2023 Submission Guidelines: The abstract should be anonymized [including the Document Properties in the .pdf file],… https://t.co/hnUgb3iAxd

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@avzaagzonunaada I'm former, but if you want to talk yo someone in the dept lmk

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Calls, 30th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association: Call for Papers: We invite submissions for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Submissions should ideally combine original data with a formal linguistic… https://t.co/9EPByqMfVf

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@w4lr6sAbdulRauf @thelast_demigod my guess would be influence from Cham

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Ten Minutes

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Talk at the University of Malaysia Sarawak next Friday on linguistc approaches to reconstructing human history.

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@w4lr6sAbdulRauf there's also serau tet in kapit, or so I've heard