Patreon Interview with Prof. Paul Roberge! (Patreon)

We're getting back into the swing of things with pretty routine weekend live interviews with experts. If you've never tried this particular Patreon perk of coming to an interview live, and you can fit one into your schedule, I encourage you to try it. Every one of our interviewees has been extremely willing to answer all sorts of relevant questions.

Our guest this coming weekend, on Sunday September 18th at 9:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time (note that's an hour earlier than these have often been scheduled), is Professor Paul Roberge, like Ben Frey a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Professor Roberge has been something of a one-man department of old Germanic languages there for a while, teaching Old Norse among many, many other historical languages and literatures.

But one of his top research interests is in creolization in the history of languages, especially with the test case of a modern-day Germanic language he has studied extensively, Afrikaans. Join us Sunday for what promises to be a wide-ranging and informative talk on what happens when radically different languages come into contact and children grow up speaking something that isn't either one. Surely we'll get into interesting questions about where else this might have happened in history and prehistory, potentially even long ago in the history of English.

The Zoom link for the live interview is here ( https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/91656402516 ) and the passcode is: creolize

Please also note that Stella has had to take some extra time to travel for family-related reasons; this might affect both our response times for a while as I also play "catch up" with missed communications from during my long time away.

NOTE: I edited this message after realizing I had given the Atlantic time zone time rather than my own Mountain time zone time. Jet lag even twists my perception of time zones, haha. 

For now, thanks for your continued kindness and support, and all the best,

Jackson Crawford

P.S. My Patreon messages don't work. I don't get notifications for them, and there's nothing on my home page to show me when there is or isn't a message. I can't even always see them when I check for them manually, and you won't see it if I reply! The best ways to get in touch are: a) just to comment on posts like this, b) to post in the  Community page, or c) to email my assistant Stella at [admin AT JacksonWCrawford.com]--remember the 'W' between my first and last names in that domain name.