Since we’re all stuck at home during this quarantine, and I want to plug my magazine!

Mental Realness Mag is a digital publication specifically for black femmes (of any gender identity) navigating mental health. We feature photography, poetry, prose, articles, etc. We’ve just recently published our fourth issue, and I would love if you guys could check it out. I’ve included some of the highlights below and a link to the magazine as well!

(We’re always looking for writers and visual media submissions as well!)

Volume IV: Black Femme Epistemology

Disrupting Traditional Journalism: What I have learned about being a successful digital media journalist

Disrupting Traditional Journalism: What I have learned about being a successful digital media journalist

Young Lady at the Writing Desk by Auguste de La Brely. Source: https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_4473/1597574408992/LA_BRELY_666C_master.jpg?width=768

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HYP are the proud publishers of The Resilience of Being, an Anthology of short stories edited by @e.willingham

Grab yourself a copy on Amazon! You won’t regret it!

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You know… there’s is something perpetually transcending about the idea of contemporaries – people who live through and witness a particular period in time, as perhaps existentially irreversible moments and impressions.

For something so ‘slim’ it’s been a long time coming, but we’re happy to be launching our new project:

S’limis a decisively ‘slim’ zine focusing on a particular placeat a time, merging the contemporary and the historical experiences of visiting, living, staying and theorizing, coming out around 3 three times a year.

ISSN 2343-1016 (online)

ISSN 2343-1024 (print)

Issues of S’lim are always available for online viewing, but we try to get each issue out there also in print, in one form or another. If you’re interested, let us know.

The Yolmo evidential system includes a category for generally known facts. Things like lemons are sour or tea is sweet (in Nepal at least) are marked using the general fact evidential òŋge. The form òŋ is also the verb ‘to come’.

This evidential turns up in every dialect of Yolmo documented to date, but it doesn’t exist in any other Tibetic language, not the specific form, or the even the semantic category. There is one language with a similar category though, and that’s the variety of Tamang spoken near the Melamchi Yolmo villages. The Tamang form kha-pa covers similar evidential semantics, and is also based on the lexical verb ‘come’.

In this paper we look at these similar forms, and how the similarities between them and social history of the area indicates the Yolmo òŋge is likely a calque from the Tamang kha-pa. I’m very grateful to my colleagues Thomas Owen-Smith for working with me on this paper. Thomas was working on the documentation of this variety of Tamang while I was writing my thesis about Yolmo evidentiality. Chatting with him helped me make sense of this unique feature of Yolmo and I’m so happy we’ve turned our long conversations into a not very long paper setting out our analysis.

Abstract

This paper examines the similarity of the Yolmo ‘general fact’ evidential and the ‘generic fact’ evidential in the Tamang dialect spoken in the valley of the Indrawati Khola. Yolmo òŋge is unlike any evidential attested in other Tibetic languages, but shares features with 1kha-pa in the local dialect of Tamang. Semantically, they both are used for situations that are generally known facts. Structurally, both are copulas with evidential functions that are formed using the lexical verb ‘come’. We argue that language contact between Tamang speakers of the Indrawati Khola area and Yolmo speakers in the Melamchi Valley led to the Yolmo language calquing the Tamang form. We illustrate these copulas and their relationship because grammaticalisation of copulas from a lexical verb ‘come’ is cross-linguistically uncommon.

Reference

Gawne, L. & T. Owen-Smith. 2022. The General Fact/Generic Factual in Yolmo and Tamang. Studies in Language. Issue number forthcoming. doi: 10.1075/sl.21049.gaw

Suzy Styles is one of my favourite people to talk to about research data, the importance of transparency in research methods, and how we can always do things better. So when the editors of the Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management invited us to submit a chapter about the things linguists can learn about data management from discussions in other fields of social science (particularly experimental psychology), I was so excited to sit down with Suzy and bring together everything I’ve learnt in the last few years of our discussions.

Linguists spend a lot of time working with data, but we do not always give much thought to the role that data plays in building the larger research culture in our field. We can learn a lot about good data management in our own discipline by learning from what is happening in related fields, both in terms of innovations and new benchmarks, as well as when things have not gone right. We look at how data have been conceptualized and managed in other areas of the social sciences, particularly social psychology, and how current attitudes are shaping the future of research. The fundamental theme of this discourse is the centrality of openness, both in terms of transparency of methodology and making primary data more accessible to people beyond the original researchers. This move toward open research aims to reduce biases, both for individual researchers and for the discipline, and encourages more considered data collection and presentation.

Reference

Gawne, L. & S. Styles. 2022. Situating linguistics in the social science data movement. In A.L. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnell, E. Koller & L.B. Collister (Eds), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management, 9-25. MIT Press. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0006[Open Access PDF]

Other resources

• The handbook is completely Open Access, the other 55 chapters are available here
• Free Open Access companion course covering the first 13 chapters (including ours)
  

See also:

• Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field(article)
  
• The Tromsø Recommendations
  
• The Austin Principles of Data Citation in Linguistics
• Data transparency and citation in the journal Gesture(article)
• Putting practice into words:  The state of data and methods transparency in grammatical descriptions(article)
  
• Reflections on reproducible research, in Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998(article)