A new linguistics blog! and it’s an historical linguistics blog! And the blogger, David Mortensen, is just a hop, skip, and a jump away in real life. Over at my alma mater in Berkeley. I see he’s working with James Matisoff on STEDT (the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project). I got to be about a decade and a half ago when I ran into Matisoff at a Macworld conference across the bay in San Francisco and discussed how he was using a database on the project. (Was it Filemaker?) I see that Mortensen is also studying Hmong and Mien languages, of which there are a lot of informants here in the East Bay. I look forward to more of his postings. [via Languagehat]
Posted by jim at August 8, 2004 03:07 PM | TrackBack