There are now available for download eight handouts and presentations from talks and lectures I gave in 2017. You can download PDFs under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) from this page. Materials from talks for other years will be added in future.
I gave an online guest lecture in the MA module Introduction to Language Documentation at SOAS, University of London on 14 October 2020. The topic was "Language documentation and language description: theory and practice". The slides are available for download.
I gave a presentation on 24 September 2020 entitled “Developing Bayungu Language and Culture Awareness for a Marine Park” — you can download a PDF of my presentation
Today we published the 18th volume of Language Documentation and Description. It is a special issue that deals with the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Sylheti, a minority language spoken in Bangladesh, India and diaspora communities in the UK, USA and elsewhere. You can read my post about the volume on EL Blog, and download all the papers for free from LDD 18.
Today I added more categories in the main menu, especially sections on Blogs, Publishing, and my Publications, with sub-menus for the Publications category. A full listing of my 18 books, 50 book chapters and 47 journal articles has now been completed, with links for some of the items to downloadable PDFs -- over time I will add more of these links to make my work available for others. I added some more information in the 'About me' page, as well as on the main home page.
Today, I established my personal website with the assistance of David Nathan. As new materials are added I will post on this page. I decided to establish my own website for several reasons: