Linguist @ UC Berkeley. Language documentation, archiving, and historical linguistics. "Basic Yurok" (2014) and "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California" (2023). Running; semi-competitive age-grade racer.
Andrew Garrett
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Alfred Kroeber was born 150 years ago today. We had a picnic!
Linguists: I recommend this great (if also discouraging) data collection and analysis by Amy Rose Deal and Barak Krakauer!
profling.beehiiv.com/p/the-academ...
Andy Pawley's recent passing led me to read this memoir article, which I highly recommend. I have always admired his work, but this essay made me see him as the kind of linguist we should all hope to more like.
nzlingsoc.org/journal_arti...
^to *be* more like
A great article about a sorry subject.
www.chronicle.com/article/unma...
I was surprised that @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social celebrated Charter Day yesterday with rhetoric suppressing the presence of Indigenous people. My take in my 2023 book is here too.
“In memoriam Ian Maddieson (1942–2025)” by Patricia Keating (Apr. ’26) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm up this week on the @ursulakleguin.com blog podcast, reading the title essay, "In Your Spare Time." It's a great Le Guin for skeptics and beginners, a little bento box of her ideas and prose—irreverent, thoughtful, and moving.
inyoursparetime.libsyn.com/julie-phillips-reads-in-your-spare-time
