Guillaume
@gguitang.bsky.social
Postdoct - Linguistics | University of Oxford Interest in Chadic
Happy to share that my paper "Variation in Gizey third-person subjects and the emergence of antilogophoricity" is now out! It's available open access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Variation in Gizey third-person subjects and the emergence of antilogophoricity
This paper is concerned with how grammatical functions emerge in natural languages. Specifically, it provides insights into the emergence of antilogophoricity, viz., the special coding of participants...
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New paper out 🥳 Joint work with @danielaltshuler.bsky.social on monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey. I keep coming back to this reviewer’s comment: “Absolutely publishable as is… no suggestions for improvement (first time in 20+ years!)” 🤣🤣. It's here: journals.flvc.org/sal/article/...
Monosyndetic and bisyndetic conjunction in Gizey | Studies in African Linguistics
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Negation and Afroasiatic things happening tomorrow 😃
Joey Lovestrand@joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 7mo agoJournée Négation en afroasiatique du 31 janvier 2026 I will be presenting (in English) on Negation in Barayin (Chadic) at 2 pm (UK time; 3 pm in Paris) cnrs.zoom.us/j/9566683656... ID de réunion: 956 6683 6566 Code secret: Rq5u7p
Just tried the CLAD's (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar) Wolof < > French translation tool, #FirilMa: cladfirilma.ucad.sn. Works great 👍
Paris friends! Excited to speak here soon. I'll present data on negation in Gizey, and discuss the intriguing behaviour of a negative existential that is attested across the Northern Masa languages. Hope to see you there!
Watched Hind Meddeb’s “Sudan, remember us” yesterday and strongly recommend it (if you haven’t seen it). Love how it captures poetry in the midst of absurd brutality.
Sorbonne Université@sorbonne-universite.fr · 10mo agoLes 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
For London-area academics: our 3rd colloq in linguistics and philosophy.
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...
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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 (...
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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
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The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳 journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau... Pic. by Henry Tourneux
New paper "The nominal morphology of Gizey". Bonne lecture 😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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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
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 ...
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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...
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 ...
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Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental
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. 👏
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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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
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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
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VACANCY: Associate Professor or Professor of Phonetics | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Kellogg College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Phonetics. The post is offered on a full-time basis, ava...
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