Sunday, March 14, 2021

Possibly the Most Thrilling Spectacle You Will Witness in Your Life

Since time immemorial, mankind has yearned to spend public university money on the documentation and morphological description of classificatory verbs in the Gwich'in Athabascan language. 

Now, the wait is over.

My classmate wanted me to post the flyer for his thesis defense on my blog. It's a public zoom event and should be interesting. I encourage everyone interested in Athabaskan linguistics, verb/noun classification, or verb morphology in general to attend. All three of those are pretty up my alley, so I'm planning to go and listen. All the information you need is right here:




Hope to see you, your friends, your (grand)parents and your pets there as Gwich'in classificatory verbs are an important topic with which everyone, including your dog, ought to have a comfortable familiarity.

Friday, March 12, 2021

Gwich'in Dance, Life and Language with Jeffrey John




 Today we have an important guest on the show: Jeffrey John. He is a dancer and hunter from Venetie, Alaska. Jeffrey is one of maybe 400 people in the world who speak Gwich'in as their first language.

We hope Gwich'in people on both sides of the Canada-Alaska border can see this video and get in touch. Let's all get together and dance soon!

Note also my goatee in the intro segment, and my full beard in the interview. Let me know what looks best: goatee, beard, or clean cut!