Devin Tankersley
PhD in Linguistics from the University of New Mexico.
I’m a linguist interested in how the most basic building blocks of a language are utilized to make larger structures (words, phrases, and so on), and how we use these structures to systematically create and understand meaning. Read more about me here.
My research primarily focuses on signed languages, and I recently concluded field work to document dialectal variation in Taiwan Sign Language as a Fulbright Fellow. I recently defended my dissertation at UNM, supported by the Bilinksi Fellowship. Learn more about this project here and check my blog to see updates.
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In this post, I want to talk about my goals for linguistic tourism and my first experience with trying to go on such a trip. I came up with the idea for linguistic...
An interesting fact about Chinese writing is that it can be written in a variety of directions: traditionally it was written exclusively in vertical columns going...
Introducing this blog & website