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A blog about the wonderful diversity of the world's languages, updated biweekly by the members of Lund Language Diversity Forum.

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November 12, 2021 | Filip Larsson

Debunking a myth by chunking the etymology of pumpkin

We have discussed some interesting food-related etymologies in our past blogposts, where we could see that the origin of food items often is reflected …
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October 29, 2021 | lldf

Reduplication in Austronesian

Reduplication is a very common morphological device used throughout the world. However, Europe being an exception as it is an area where it is …
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October 15, 2021 | lldf

How to ask a verbal question

Different Interrogative words function to target different parts of a sentence. Interrogative pronouns replace and target a noun (what and who), whereas interrogative adverbs …
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October 1, 2021 | Sandra Cronhamn

Evidentials: where grammar meets source criticism

In the Western world, we are increasingly being told to pay attention to what information sources the media use. We have recently seen the …
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September 5, 2021 | lldf

Double ‘you’ and up to threefold ‘we’

by Loren A. Billings I grew up speaking two languages: English, the one that I was exposed to from the very start, and Tagalog, …
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August 20, 2021 | lldf

Meet the team!

Before kicking off another semester of blogging about language diversity, we thought it might finally be time to introduce ourselves properly. And what better …
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August 6, 2021 | lldf

Summer Etymologies: Reduplicating foreign words

On the 25th of July, Sandra posted a brilliant blogpost about different patterns that can emerge when loan words are integrated into native phonological …
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July 23, 2021 | Niklas Erben Johansson

Summer etymologies: Chirps and bonks

Bird names are an exceptionally good source for funny and descriptive nomenclature. They also have some of the most predictable etymologies around as they …
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