This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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I am leaving for Bulgaria, where I will be for maybe three or four weeks. The old school chum I will be meeting there seems to have in mind a lot of hitchhiking and sleeping rough, which do not sound like conditions convenient for regular updating of a weblog. I shall post when I can. [...]
Today I stumbled across the site Magyaróra, ‘New Paths to the Hungarian Language’. The site is an impressive collection of resources for both teachers and students (even autodidacts) of Hungarian, from grammatical tables to short exercises to readings at all levels. It’s full of audio, and you can even sign up to receive a news [...]
For those who have not yet heard of it, and who are really missing out, I thought I should mention the Cybalist mailing list, dedicated to IE studies. I shall let its main page speak for itself: CYBALIST is a forum devoted to discussing Indo-European (IE) linguistics and related topics concerning the history and and [...]
I’m planning to apply for study in Finland from Fall of 2006, so recently I have invested in some Finnish textbooks, and I see there is a lot of new things to memorise. I found myself rather intimidated by Fred Karlsson’s compilation of the 2,253 forms of the word kauppa ‘shop’. Will I ever master [...]
I had long planned to obtain a copy of Winfred Lehmann’s A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics (Indiana University Press, 1967) but my university library does not possess it and I kept forgetting to request it through inter-library loan. Imagine my joy in finding an online version of the work kindly provided by [...]
There is good news today as the BBC reports that the EU has recognised Irish as a working language. Hopefully this will contribute someone to the vitality of the Irish language. It is good to see the policy of translating documents into at least most languages of the EU continues, and it reminds us to [...]
I have updated my short article Typesetting Old Church Slavonic with LaTeX to explain how to get variant appearances of Cyrillic characters which are more suitable for OCS texts than the modern Cyrillic appearances. However, I am becoming increasingly disappointed in the quality of the Cyrillic fonts that come with LaTeX, and would like to [...]