“‘Arrival’ Oscar Noms Got You Pumped About Linguistics?”

Diego Rivera's Tenochtitlan — A depiction, by Diego Rivera, of the city of Tenochtitlán (the Aztec capital) as it may have appeared before the Spanish conquest (Representación de Diego Rivera de la posible apariencia de la ciudad de tenochtitlan anterior a la llegada de los españoles) Wikimedia Commons public domain

Here’s an interesting article about Dr. Dirk Elzinga, an associate professor of linguistics at BYU who specializes in Uto-Aztecan linguistics, phonological description and theory, and the sound structure of English:

https://news.byu.edu/news/arrivals-oscar-noms-got-you-pumped-about-linguistics

You can also read Professor Elzinga’s recent review of Brian Stubbs’s explosive new book Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan by downloading it here:

https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/exploring-explanatory-power-semitic-and-egyptian-uto-aztecan

In that new book, Brian Stubbs argues for the presence of ancient Semitic and Egyptian linguistic elements in the native American Uto-Aztecan language family. If he’s right, the implications of his argument are nothing short of revolutionary.

“‘Arrival’ Oscar noms got you pumped about linguistics?”