Anthony Yates

i like languages — old/dead or otherwise — and i write about them ( asst prof @UCLA, PIES ( (

[Ed Pedraza-Robles @isomorphologism]

'Cross-linguistic' and 'typological' have often been used interchangeably in papers.

(1) Are these synonymous?
(2) Does your work often involve a sample of languages?

Feel free to explain the difference in comments.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@aryaman2020 @dxrsam_0 Post-RV, though I expect someone will have a more precise answer.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@Miftahuzzaman8 The orthography and phonology chapter is about twice the length as in the first edition — go read it and find out!

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

Christmas came early this year.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

Y’all should promptly go forth and order your own copies here: https://t.co/sFe7pXgKlA

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

The difference in the cover is subtle, but the difference in heft is not.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

My collaborators and I will present shortly about the Proto-Indo-European nasal infix *–ne–. It's the only infix — what's up with that? You can find our answer here: https://t.co/Dv4T5XBbEz

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

Tomorrow (25.10) is the first day of the 35th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference! We start at 9:30 PDT. The conference is free and open to the public (in Royce 314). It will also be streamed on Zoom; you can register to receive the link here: https://t.co/V1sDBTrf55

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

The last talk of the conference is by myself and collaborators. More details on that shortly.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@MWeissOHCGL @Mellohi_enwikt I take *-ei- to be a different suffix already at the PIE stage (Hitt. utne- is usually put here, though the neuter gender is odd); that it also made nouns with HK-type mobility is interesting (and seems unlikely to be coincidental), but I don’t have any real view as to why.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@MWeissOHCGL @Mellohi_enwikt Right, as Michael says here, my claim is only that animate nouns formed with the suffix *-oi- are reconstructible with HK-type accentual mobility.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

I was reminded yesterday of a fantastic upcoming opportunity for aspiring Anatolianists/IEists: Oxford’s Anatolian Languages and Linguistics Summer School! A neat chance to learn from some of the best — and registration is now open!

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@silmeth @lagorton @Norsebysw But thanks for making me clarify! As for the Irish — cool! I’m not opposed to seeing ergativity as a language-internal development, i just think that it often gets (plausibly) invoked as a factor in the change.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@silmeth @lagorton @Norsebysw The intuition is that it would be hard to explain the Basque form as a borrowing without that i-element.

[Anthony Yates @adyates]

@avzaagzonunaada If we were all being as precise as we should be and consistently used pre-Proto-Greek to refer to the internally reconstructed ancestor of Proto-Greek, I suppose we could just keep “pre-Greek” as is. But I maintain that we’re better off ditching it.

[Hannes A. Fellner @hannes_fellner]

Join us for the @univienna Summer School to learn Bactrian, Gandhari, Tangut and Tocharian:

https://t.co/Y61SoXblWh