druedin , 4 months ago to sociology

I'm excited to announce a new publication by Lisa Borrelli and myself, out now in Comparative Migration Studies. We challenge our peers to be more precise with how we describe immigrants and their descendants, criticizing in particular the terms 'second generation' and 'migration background'. @sociology #immigration #terminology #quantitative #ethnicity
https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-024-00369-0

serlwch , 10 months ago to linguistics

#Finnish has many cases. Two of them are:

• The elative case (elatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + from’; e.g. talosta ‘out of a house’.
• The illative case (illatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + to’; e.g. taloon ‘into a house’.

Now, let me understand something (and correct me if I’m wrong)… Even though they mean basically the opposite of each other, their names are pronounced the same in English (/ɪˈleɪtɪv/) 🙃

@linguistics @languagelovers

#linguistics #terminology #wtf