Professional linguist, amateur human. I want to understand what people mean and how. She/her
Oct 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@bow_cathy has shaped my understanding of linguistics inside and outside the academy since I was an undergrad. Last year, I had the privilege of examining her PhD thesis, which explored the role of digital resources in supporting Indigenous languages 1/
it comprised seven (excellent) published articles, which I hope will be widely read, but also included devastatingly insightful interstitial commentaries, documenting Cathy's intellectual and personal development over the course of writing those articles. For instance, ... 2/
Aug 9, 2019 • 45 tweets • 8 min read
Sally Rice opens our workshop (Minority Languages and CogLing: towards a two-way relationship) reflecting on the massive contribution minority lgs have made to CL and how CogLinguists are uniquely positioned to reciprocate w insights of interest to minority communities #ICLC15
Ending with a call to arms, linguists have a moral obligation to support speakers of MLgs in their language (reclamation or other) goals
