Humans Who Read Grammars

Many Humans Who Read Grammars are also teachers of some kind, myself included. With the world-wide outbreak of COVID-19, most of this teaching is forced to be no longer in a classroom setting, but rather in a remote fashion. This comes with one benefit: if someone can tell it better than you, and a video of it happens to be on youtube, get your students to watch that lecture! So, please find some resources on linguistic typology & co below. First up is a short list of youtube videos on linguistic typology and some related topics. There is an entire MA course called 'Language Typology' from the Virtual Linguistic Campus (Uni Marburg). Here is a link  to the  Virtual Linguistic Campus , featuring many more lecture series on topics in linguistics. The same for this course here , a full course from the NPTEL-NOC IITM channel that contains a lot of courses, also on linguistics. A  set of mini-lessons in linguistic typology by  Isabel Cooke McKay , including ...

Hello internet and dear subscribers, What channels, blogs, podcasts etc about linguistics are you following?  I'm keeping a list of interesting ones (in case you haven't noticed; I'm big on lists). It's here.  You can tell me about your tip by commenting there, or on our twitter, tumblr  or  face-a-books . You're also welcome to browse the list or the tag " following linguistics online " for tips to brighten your day. I'll try to add some brief description to every item in the list.

The American Museum of Natural History has created a video series about their collections, it's called  Shelf Life . In this most recent episode, the 7th, the deal with language history - the trees they form and new methods investigating it that are borrowed from computational biology. They focus particularly on the Uto-Aztecan language family of North America and using very pedagogical illustrations among other things explain edit-distance in trees. This is great, if you're interested in historical/evolutionary linguistics you should tots watch it. Here below is the actual video, you can also get more material related to  the episode here . I personally am a big fan of museums making their collection of knowledge more accessible to the public, and as a fan of  the Brain Scoop  and the Field Museum, I was of course particularly delighted that the American Museum of Natural History has decided to create this series, it seems great and I hope you'll like ...

While we're on the topic of language innateness (which is what much/most of the "war" is/was about), Annabelle Lukin, a linguist at Macquarie University in Australia, just wrote a very good article on a site called "The Conversation" about language innateness and being a parent.  You should tots go read it now. Not only does it contain videos of cute babies but also summaries of different schools of thought and implications of these philosophies on actual parenting.  It also contains this cute and interesting video from  Colwyn Trevarthen's  research  in the 70's.

At the SLE conference (Societas Linguistica Europaea) in Poznań 2014 there was a round table discussion on where current linguistics is heading and what the most important problems are that we as a file need to tackle. It was called "Quo vadis linguistics in the 21st century" and the participants were very interesting and experienced researchers.  I'd like to share some of my own thoughts and invite you to share yours with us. The brilliant blog Diversity Linguistics Comment made a longer post where you can read what the all participants presented, what they see as the most important issues right now . It is a very good read, and not that long. Anyone interested in linguistics should read and really take in what these people are saying. One of the participants didn't contribute a text to that compilation blog post, instead he contributed with a video. This is t he excellent linguist Martin Hilpert  of  University of Neuchâtel. He makes videos regularly on hi...

The excellent radio/podcast show Talk the Talk just did an episode on nativeness of language that is really, really good. They've interviewed Dr Vyvyan Evans who just came out with a book about why language isn't an instinct and they ask really good questions and get really good answers. I know I'm saying "really good" a lot, but that's just because I'm very excited and this is awesome. I'll calm down in a bit. In the meantime, enjoy this gif as a display of my excitement which cannot be expressed fully in words and go listen to the show!

There's a website with educational videos about linguistics called  the Ling Space. There's also twitter , tumblr , discussion boards , google+  and of course also a page in the book of faces. I really like the one on allophones. Id you're a person interested in linguistics and curious about it all, you should really go watch this. There's lots of similar initiatives like this, but this one is really good in that it's good bite sized bits of information and clearly presented. I've often thought of doing something very, very similar in future, but just not had the time, resources, energy etc. I'm very glad this exists. This is a great thing, go go.