1) Dmitry Pruss sent me a link to The Speakers of Indo-European and their World: With interesting abstracts from most likely upcoming publications, which features “On the Evidence for the Tocharian Second Hypothesis,” “The Indo-European origins of Persephone and the Albanian goddess Premtë,” “Towards New Stories: Bringing Archaeological and Archaeogenetic Information Together to Reconstruct Migrations from the Steppe to Southeastern and Central Europe,” “Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Iranian: Different Worlds?” and “Shining in the distance – PIE colour terms revisited.”
2) Slavomír Čéplö (bulbul) posted on Facebook a link to Code-switching and code-mixing in the conditions of Slavic-Slavic language contact: Vershina – a unique Polish language island in Siberia, by Michał Głuszkowski (open access).
If any of that seems interesting, click on through!
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Oops. Well, Slavo linked to Michał’s post; perhaps you can see that? In any case, the FB posts are just pointers to the book, with a brief description.
The collection of abstracts must be for this conference in Basel
Edit: Yes, here it is (pdf).
I can access Głuszkowski’s FB post. The book site you originally linked is all in Polish (apart from the book title). I was loth to click on buttons of unknown function.
In the PDF:
Drinking water in Switzerland is very safe and generally potable.
All the abstracts are in English or German. No French.
French is such a chatty language. It’s just not suited for quick summary.
… but the geographic and institutional distribution of the speakers is noteworthy. Not surprising, but worth pondering over.
Here’s a poster on the Persephone Premte paper:
https://x.com/Arbanology/status/1829484508615164312
In the course of reading a bit about the Siberian stretch of the border between Russia and China, I stumbled upon the microstate of Jaxa, founded by a Pole in 1655. His name was Nicefor Czernichowski. Non-Carraigs might find themselves with the time to shimmy down that particular rabbit hole, which would likely return the investment handsomely.
Wikipedia:
Very cool!
territory China ceded to Russia at Treaty of Aigun in 1858.
(I’m dubious it’s a smart move to point out all the borderlands China might have some historical claim to.)
Boy, that’s a master class in trolling. Well done, President Lai!