Nathan Dykes

Would anyone in the #linguistics sphere or elsewhere have tips on learning Finnish?

I'd be starting from basically nothing and would be working on my own for now. I can work with materials in English, German or Swedish.

#learningfinnish #finnish

New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with James Tauber:

Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries.

We introduce #regex with actual #corpuslinguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[

Happy to send a copy to anyone interested.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8

My current Finnish level: "Vihreä velho on lehmä. Se etsii jotain syötävää." (The green wizard is a cow. It is looking for something to eat.)

Fortunately, there'll be opportunities to improve: starting a postdoc with TurkuNLP in September, to work on digital linguistics & web language variation 🇫🇮

@Stoori@polyglot.city Thank you, this is very helpful! I'll probably aim for both eventually, but for now, anything that helps get a sense of some basics is great, as i might be looking to spend quite a lot of time there in around six months.

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography

👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?

📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.

🔗 https://nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/cads-survey/

#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH #DigitalHumanities

I don't usually post about this (or anything much, for that matter), but, as I learned yesterday, the phenomenon of reading through the draft of a whole PhD chapter and thinking 'Huh, I'm actually quite happy with this' does really exist, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's rather nice.

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife

- "Is there a meeting today?"
- "Yes, you're welcome to join if you like!"
- "Sure, I don't have much to report though."
- "Okay, no need to waste your time listening to us, write your dissertation instead"

I wish more meeting-related conversations went like this 😆

No duck-headed dogs allowed beyond this point.

The Reading Concordances in the 21st Century project is hosting a free Training Day and Symposium this March in Erlangen, and we’d love to see you there!

Event Highlights:

- Hands-on training day
- Two days of inspiring talks and discussions
- Poster session — showcase your research on concordances!

Learn more:

https://www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/research/current-projects/reading-concordances-in-the-21st-century-rc21/rc21-events/symposium/

I keep getting these spam emails informing me that my account will expire if I don't click on this dubious link. They don't seem to realise that they could easily bait me and probably pretty much all academics by promising the exact opposite.