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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 1d

Ga je mee 27 oktober? 🟥 Dit is je kans als je denkt ‘kon ik maar wat doen!’

Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 3d

Een kwart miljoen mensen hier - dat is 5 zetels, beste politici! Wij trekken een rode lijn tegen Israël’s geweld 🚩#rodelijn

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Oxfam Novib @oxfamnovib.bsky.social · 4d

Wij zijn er klaar voor. Jullie ook?

❤️ en share deze post als je meeloopt!

Voor alle info, check oxfamnovib.nl of ons Instagram-account: www.instagram.com/p/DPQlMq5DDp...

#5oktober #rodelijn #museumplein #amsterdam

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 3d

Zie je daar!

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

Wij noemen dat ‘schapenweer’. Dat je naar buiten kijkt en denkt: ‘bèèèh!’ 🐑

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

Niet ‘ma belle’?

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

En wat is het meervoud van libelle in jullie huishouden?

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

Toon wordt in de orthografie niet gemarkeerd, dus het had gekund. Ik weet niet waarom hiervoor gekozen is…

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

Also: I laughed so loud and love this so much! 😂😍

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

ligazine!

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

P.S. ĩ/ũ in Gĩkũyũ and î/û in Kîîtharaka are the orthographic forms of [e]/[o]; <e/o> represent [ɛ]/[ɔ].

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

The reason the ‘prefix’ is kept in A*gĩ*kũyũ is the origin of the name: The founder of the Gĩkũyũ people was called Gĩkũyũ!
So technically the language could be Gĩgĩkũyũ, but we know that speakers disprefer repeating the same syllable, hence it’s 💬 Gĩkũyũ and 👥Agĩkũyũ.

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

First sth about noun classes: kî/gĩ- is the prefix of noun class 7 in both languages, used to refer to objects and also languages. A- is the prefix of noun class 2 in both, referring to human beings. Normally, you replace the prefix on a noun stem:
kî-ntu = thing
a-ntu = people
û-ntu = reason

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating language fact of the day #4: speakers of Kîîtharaka call themselves Atharaka, while speakers of neighbouring Gĩkũyũ are Agĩkũyũ, not Akũyũ.
How come?

(Ethnologue map shows both languages in Kenya)

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

CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...

Call collaborators

Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…

epistemicity.net

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langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social · 6d

Just published "Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages" edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Sampson Korsah, Sharon Rose & Abdul-Razak Sulemana #openaccess #cal langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Workshop ‘The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction’. Let’s think about speaker and addresse knowledge in language and how to model it. Come join us at the SLE 2026 in Osnabrück! Deadline pre-cfp 5 November ✨

epistemicity.net/workshop/

SLE workshop

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2…

epistemicity.net

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, jij hebt de ongelooflijke podcast ook ontdekt! Goed is ‘ie, hè? Fijn dat jij de etymologieën recht kan zetten, Gaston - weer wat geleerd.
@davidboogerd.bsky.social

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Workshop ‘The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction’. Let’s think about speaker and addresse knowledge in language and how to model it. Come join us at the SLE 2026 in Osnabrück! Deadline pre-cfp 5 November ✨

epistemicity.net/workshop/

SLE workshop

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2…

epistemicity.net

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

🍰 Hoe was die uitdrukking ook weer? 😆🤔

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Correction: Zeisler (with one s)!

Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Final words by Zeissler: the blind speaker’s perspective “turns out to be like a magnifying glass, unmasking a fine-grained distinction otherwise hidden beyond conventionalised preconceptions” 👀

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Zeissler is inspired by this blind speaker’s logic: ‘dug is *immediate* perception and rag is *less immediate*. In fact, this seems to be how seeing speakers can also use the markers! She concludes that ‘dug is secondarily associated with seeing, because sight is the most immediate perception.

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

But other than seeing speakers, she uses rag (for non-visual perception) with experiences like climbing rocks. This can be analysed as less immediate perception.

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 7d

Bettina Zeissler (2023) reports on a blind Ladakhi speaker’s use of these markers. The speaker uses ‘dug when she has immediate and close perception, like when touching a cat:

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