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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 1d

#Cameroon

Sorbonne Université @sorbonne-universite.fr · 2d

Les photos aussi racontent une histoire ! 📸

Avec "La Chambre noire de l'Histoire" de @ehne.fr, des historiens contextualisent de vieilles photos d'archives.

👉 Après la guerre d'Algérie et la Shoah, zoom cette fois-ci sur un évènement longtemps oublié : la guerre du Cameroun : https://swll.to/WLvAX

Photo représentant un œil avec le texte "Le Cameroun, une guerre de décolonisation oubliée"

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Daniel Altshuler @danielaltshuler.bsky.social · 9d

For London-area academics: our 3rd colloq in linguistics and philosophy.

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 21d

Ideophone sequences in my Gizey datasets mostly involve repetition (x x x x). Where two distinct ideophones occur (x x x y), the second tends to be the same ideophone, i.e. faɗ ‘directly’. Not clear whether I have internal organisation or not. Here's to more work!

Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 21d

Cool read this morning: "Ideophonic sequences: Challenging the asymmetric syntactic structure hypothesis" in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. Two main questions: 1) Do ideophone sequences function as constituents, and) 2 Do they have flat or hierarchical structure?
doi.org/10.16995/glo...

Ideophonic sequences: Challenging the asymmetric syntactic structure hypothesis

This paper challenges the hypothesis that ideophonic sequences are syntactic structures built from lexical roots by the recursive operation Merge through the mediation of a functional head, taken to b...

doi.org

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 25d

Our faculty is holding an online Graduate Open Day via Teams on 25th September, 1-2pm (British Summer Time); an opportunity to ask questions about the Linguistics graduate courses on offer at Oxford and the admissions process.
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Graduate Linguistics Online Open Day

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics will be holding an online Graduate Open Day via Microsoft Teams for all prospective graduate applicants on Thursday 25th September 2025 from 1-2pm (...

www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Sep 10

Can't remember the last time I used it, but the CPE word for this is "baba". So, ya mami be de baba you 😃. Wonder how this is said in Naija

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Martina Wiltschko hits the nail on the head in her analysis of why Trump’s lies feel worse than just lies: ‘the truth is being hijacked’ - read more on Trump, truth, and territory of information here:
medium.com/brain-labs/r...

Rightsplaining Reality

A linguistic perspective on Trump’s territoriality of truth

medium.com

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Sep 5

The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux

Anthropomorphic rocks near Loulou (Giziga area) © Henry Tourneux

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Sep 3

New paper "The nominal morphology of Gizey". Bonne lecture 😊

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today I gave my first-ever presentation at the yearly Colloquium on African Languages and #Linguistics. My question to the Africanists, Afroasiaticists, Cushiticists: why do we think #Cushitic is a thing? 1/14

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Václav Hrnčíř @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social · Aug 26

Should PhD students drink more?🤔

This essay examines the declining alcohol consumption among PhD students and its implications for academic social life. 🍻

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Should PhD students drink more? - Theory and Society

This essay examines the declining alcohol consumption among PhD students and its implications for academic social life. Drawing on Slingerland’s (2021) evolutionary framework, I suggest that moderate ...

link.springer.com

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Aug 4

Félicitations Daniel !

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jul 9

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and saying `` yes '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and saying `` yes '' .

media.tenor.com

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jul 7

Now thinking people in Limbe called us "Tupuri" when I was a kid. Because we were the darkest people around 🤭. That was the name for very black people thought to originate from the North.

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jul 7

Families of military personnel?

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Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social · Jul 4

More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jul 3

If #Oga (I hope your Naijá is good) reviewer says they “laughed out loud” and wishes “more journal articles made us laugh like that,” then you definitely want to read my ideophone paper, don’t you? 😁
It’s here, open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Ideophones in Gizey grammar

This paper discusses ideophonicity in Gizey (Chadic), viz ., the ability of a word to depict sensory experiences. The term “ideophone” is frequently attested in the Gizey literature. While ideophones ...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Apr 15

Bravo 👏

Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Mar 5

Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Feb 21

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Dictionnaire massa-français - Apps on Google Play

Search for words in massa with their French translations.

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Feb 21

When the war broke out, I fled. But stayed in touch with some students. Today, one, Zadolf, has become a software engineer. Between classes at the uni, he converts dictionaries compiled by Tonino into mobile apps. The first one is on PlayStore. Just another app? No, a major achievement. 👏

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · Feb 5

Are you afraid of tone languages? We created a video to help you with hearing and transcribing tone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqrl...

Hearing and transcribing tone

YouTube video by Enhancing Linguistic Scholarship in Eastern Africa

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jan 21

I feel like CPE has the same "irregular iteration" pattern. Would be great to find out! By the way, in Cameroon we say *múgù*, not *maga* 😜. Thanks for a good read. Interesting questions

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Jan 15

ULB is a great place!

Specialist in Romance linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax) with particular skills in Italian and Spanish linguistics. A comparative and applied approach is required.

www.ulb.be/fr/vacances-...

Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication - ULB

www.ulb.be

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · Dec 17

We invite interested speakers to submit abstracts for a panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber and Chadic, to be held at the upcoming Afrikanist*innentag from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Vienna. This panel aims to bring together experts to share insights and advancements on this topic.

LINGUIST List 35.3379 FYI: Afrikanist*innentag 2025: Panel on Tense and Aspect in Berber (Amazigh) and Chadic

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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