Mark Ellison

Congratulations @NickJChater!

Metaphor arises in protolanguage with compositionality + selectional restrictions, and is the launching pad for the evolution of grammatical structure. Selectional restrictions transcend holistic vs isolating debate. With @Uta_Reinoehl link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our #languageorigin paper is out @RSocPublishing Gesture communicates better than vocalisation cross-culturally (Australia, Vanuatu) & cross-modally (blind, sighted). Gesture’s success due to its greater #universality @UniKoeln @CoEDLang @UWApsych royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Absolutely hypnotic

People ask me "so what's the project you're working for about?", and this is a nice, lay-man's answer! A short write-up about the ERC funded GramAdapt Project @GramAdapt

@SimonJGreenhill Buying (especially academic) books and reading them are unrelated hobbies ... kind of like painting rural landscapes and farming :-)

Native English Speakers - can you help our linguistic study (@uni_mainz): quick, easy, interesting. Just complete some sentences for us. Thanks! - @tmarke & Uta obligator.ics.pw/study2019C.html

A new 50 cent coin for #internationalyearofindigenouslanguages launched today! theconversation.com/the-14-indigen…

No evidence that parachute use prevents death & trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomised controlled trial-“trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps” bmj.com/content/363/bm…

One of my favs from this Evolang. twitter.com/kristian_tylen…

New paper on the origin and expansion of Pama-Nyungan, the world's largest hunter-gatherer language family, is just out in Nature Ecology & Evolution - nature.com/articles/s4155…

John McWhorter with Colbert on Late Show: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RSH48E…

New in @EvolHumBehav Applying the Cultural Ratchet to a Social Artefact: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of a Language Game with: @tmarke @fusaroli @kristian_tylen @boyautocrat @UWApsych @interact_minds ehbonline.org/article/S1090-…

#Snow falling in Weston, in #Canberra ACT

Paper out (with L Miceli) in Language on bias behind bilingual-led loss of shared vocabulary in related languages. muse.jhu.edu/article/662882

Today's offering from Melanie Phillips just the latest of a number of historical interlopes. I applaud her efforts to breakup of the UK. twitter.com/DJMHarland/sta…

#WorldEconomicForum worry-fest 2017: extreme #weather, involuntary #migration, #water crises, large-scale #Terror attacks and #DataTheft

BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake. USA: Hold my beer.

@garicgymro Kids used to tease Offa about his name na-na-na-na-na.