Guillaume
@gguitang.bsky.social
Postdoct - Linguistics | University of Oxford
Interest in Chadic
Interest in Chadic
Grammaticalization people, how much do you agree with this?
"Clearly therefore, we can't really evoke grammaticalization if no indication is given about the history and the time line one is talking about."
"Clearly therefore, we can't really evoke grammaticalization if no indication is given about the history and the time line one is talking about."
September 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Grammaticalization people, how much do you agree with this?
"Clearly therefore, we can't really evoke grammaticalization if no indication is given about the history and the time line one is talking about."
"Clearly therefore, we can't really evoke grammaticalization if no indication is given about the history and the time line one is talking about."
Interesting project here
www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/rec...
www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/rec...
RECORDS: Remote Elicitation and Community-Oriented Recording for Dialect Studies - Surrey Morphology Group
www.smg.surrey.ac.uk
July 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Interesting project here
www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/rec...
www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/rec...
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...
www.degruyterbrill.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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...
Live: Professor Devyani Sharma's Inaugural Lecture.
February 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Live: Professor Devyani Sharma's Inaugural Lecture.
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/...
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
journals.flvc.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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/...
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/...
Negation and Afroasiatic things happening tomorrow 😃
Journée 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
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
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Negation and Afroasiatic things happening tomorrow 😃
Just tried the CLAD's (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar) Wolof < > French translation tool, #FirilMa: cladfirilma.ucad.sn. Works great 👍
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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!
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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!
Join us if you can...🫣
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Join us if you can...🫣
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.
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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.
Love this!!
gillianramchand.blog/2025/08/07/n...
gillianramchand.blog/2025/08/07/n...
Naming, Pronouns, and Sports Journalism
At some point early on in my son’s life (I think he was about 3), I suddenly realised with a horrified shock that I had entirely forgotten to use any actual pronouns in his presence— OM…
gillianramchand.blog
October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Love this!!
gillianramchand.blog/2025/08/07/n...
gillianramchand.blog/2025/08/07/n...
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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For London-area academics: our 3rd colloq in linguistics and philosophy.
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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...
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
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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...
doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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...
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
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/07...
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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...
medium.com/brain-labs/r...
Rightsplaining Reality
A linguistic perspective on Trump’s territoriality of truth
medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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...
medium.com/brain-labs/r...
The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The latest issue of _Afrika und Übersee_ includes 6 articles on #Chadic languages ! 🥳
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikau...
Pic. by Henry Tourneux
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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
August 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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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...
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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August 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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...
This essay examines the declining alcohol consumption among PhD students and its implications for academic social life. 🍻
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Guillaume
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...
July 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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...
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
July 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
It’s here, open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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. 👏
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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. 👏
Reposted by Guillaume
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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February 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Are you afraid of tone languages? We created a video to help you with hearing and transcribing tone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqrl...