Out now in PNAS: Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of #polysynthetic #languages by Alex Koplenig and me: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518416122

This is a comment on Bromham et al.'s https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504483122

#linguistics 🧶 coming up...

Beginning fall 2024…the establishment of a Cherokee Language course series.

This course…will span four semesters…It will be primarily offered online and include several in-person sessions at Duke University as well as a field trip to Cherokee, NC for more immersive learning opportunities. This series will satisfy Trinity’s Foreign Language (FL) requirement.

https://global.duke.edu/nasi-cherokee-language-program

#indigenous #cherokeelanguage #cherokee #duke #polysynthetic #nativeamerican #amerindian #revitalization

{#Transwomen} are not "less than" {trans women}, or {trans-women}, or {cis women}, or {women}. See: 'businesswoman'

Don't pretend English is an isolating language 'cuz of some dumb TERF. English can be a #polysynthetic language whenever we want it to be

One #morpheme does not necessarily detract from others in a compound. Please don't give them that. Don't let it come down to letting TERFs argue from a linguistically absurd perspective.