Joshua T. Katz

Constructed languages, examined from the perspective of someone who is primarily a recontructor and with special emphasis on a pair of English-based examples that have interesting diachronic and

Wordplay as an unexpected avenue into fundamental linguistic issues, with an interactive workshop on exercises in English and French designed to demonstrate what happens when language is pushed to its

General problems in the analysis and reconstruction of (mostly older Indo-European) pronouns and other ubiquitous “light” words with minimal phonological form and non-obvious internal morphology;