Professor of Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, and Classics, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2012
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Absolutely horrific service from @LGUS and @LGUSSupport. They damaged a water line installing a dishwasher. When I ran the dishwasher, it smelled like it was burning. Called the installation team, bit they refused to help. This is how you lose a customer.
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I am devastated to learn that Prof. Heiner Eichner, Professor Emeritus for Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Vienna, has died in the 81st year of his life. Prof. Eichner was my teacher, supervisor, colleague and boss and accompanied me for 21 years of my life.
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With great sorrow, we learnt about Patrick Hanks who failed to recover from long COVID and passed away yesterday, February 1st, 2024. Patrick was a leading character in lexicography for several decades, a promoter of the Corpus Pattern Analysis (pdev.org.uk) as well as one of our intellectual godfathers during his long-term collaboration with Adam Kilgarriff, the founder of Sketch Engine. R.I.P. Patrick.
ALT Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 - 01 February 2024)
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In December, @MPI_EVA_Leipzig will be hosting a ws on the curation of cross-linguistic datasets of texts and graphs in the CLDF standards. @AnnikaTjuka
Forkel and List are organising. eva.mpg.de/de/linguistic-and…
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Interested in recent discussions of Greenbergian word order universals? Then don't miss the current thread on LINGTYP (with contributions by Bresnan, Jäger, Greenhill, Bohnemeyer, Pakendorf, Bowern, Nordhoff, etc.): listserv.linguistlist.org/pi…
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The Department of Linguistics @univienna is organising a 2024 Summer School dedicated to the languages of the Eastern Silk Road:
Bactrian – Melanie Malzahn
Gandhari – Angelo Mascheroni
Tocharian – Hannes A. Fellner
Tangut – Xun Gong
viennaborderlandsconference.…
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🌞Masterclass🌞 Join me for "Modelling the dynamics of language change" -- an accessible masterclass for the inquisitive. Gain an insight into what it's all about. No modelling/math/coding expertise required! Sydney, Nov 29.
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The Program in Indo-European Studies and Classics are hiring! We’re conducting an open-rank search in Classical Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Review of applications will begin on November 3rd. Full details here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0881…
Support and Expand the Packard Humanities Institute's Greek Inscriptions Database! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/JZwjJk2b via @Change
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Seminar: Relative chronology in historical linguistics
Copenhagen, 29–30 June 2023
Online attendance is possible.
Programme, abstracts, Zoom link and further information at rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/…
I’m giving a talk on the diversification of Ancient Greek next week. More info here if you’d like to check it out: ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/g…
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i'm very proud of all of our coders & collaborators, #Grambank is out today
press release mpg.de/20186271/0418-evan-gr…
website grambank.clld.org/
paper science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
code: github.com/grambank/grambank…
Zenodo zenodo.org/record/7844558#.Z…
change requests github.com/grambank/grambank…
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Which approach is the most useful for reconstructing the history of languages?
55%The tree model
21%The wave theory
24%Nescio
279 votes • Final results
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Latest paper now out @systbiol! With O. Vernygora, @WrightingApril and @brunoasm
Handling Logical Character Dependency in Phylogenetic Inference: Extensive Performance Testing of Assumptions and Solutions Using Simulated and Empirical Data (1/n)#evolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/adva…
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In the last week, three people on reddit/r/statistics have asked about testing whether a sample came from a Gaussian distribution.
The answer is that you should never test for normality. The result is a non-answer to the wrong question.
allendowney.com/blog/2023/01…
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Andrew Gelman famously said that "you need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than to estimate a main effect" statmodeling.stat.columbia.e…. Where does 16x come from? If you're used to thinking about interactions as regressions, his process is confusing! A 🧵...
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For those who couldn't attend my talk
𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗦
𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Slides and notes here: tinyurl.com/32ffbfhs
See a summary below 👇
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After reading @vanderviana's book Teaching English with Corpora, I made a list of online corpus tools that either (a) I didn’t know, or (b) I wasn’t really familiar with before reading the book. I made this thread to spread the word about some of them to other language teachers.