Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri)
@adamcschembri.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
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Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
$2400 a year to subscribe to Ethnologue. Scandalous.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
$2400 a year to subscribe to Ethnologue. Scandalous.
It’s National #Linguistics Day next week: what are you doing to celebrate it?
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It’s National #Linguistics Day next week: what are you doing to celebrate it?
Thank you colleagues at the Centre for Language Evolution Studies at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, for hosting me this week.
May 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Thank you colleagues at the Centre for Language Evolution Studies at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, for hosting me this week.
35 years ago I started my first Auslan course. That course changed my life.
Happy Auslan Day, Australia!
(13th April 1989 was the publication day of the first Auslan dictionary)
Happy Auslan Day, Australia!
(13th April 1989 was the publication day of the first Auslan dictionary)
April 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
35 years ago I started my first Auslan course. That course changed my life.
Happy Auslan Day, Australia!
(13th April 1989 was the publication day of the first Auslan dictionary)
Happy Auslan Day, Australia!
(13th April 1989 was the publication day of the first Auslan dictionary)
Why this headline, @theguardian.com?
Accent prejudice sucks: don’t use it as click bait.
Accent prejudice sucks: don’t use it as click bait.
April 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Why this headline, @theguardian.com?
Accent prejudice sucks: don’t use it as click bait.
Accent prejudice sucks: don’t use it as click bait.
First rate popular linguistics/#lingcomm writing in this book by @robdrummond.bsky.social: I’m enjoying learning how this should be done!
March 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
First rate popular linguistics/#lingcomm writing in this book by @robdrummond.bsky.social: I’m enjoying learning how this should be done!
It’s been a great UK Sign Language Week with most members of the @erc.europa.eu SignMorph Project team re-united at @unibirmingham.bsky.social this week for joint work and a day of presentations (most of the team work remotely).
March 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It’s been a great UK Sign Language Week with most members of the @erc.europa.eu SignMorph Project team re-united at @unibirmingham.bsky.social this week for joint work and a day of presentations (most of the team work remotely).
Got my copy! Delighted to have co-authored a chapter in this new volume with Kate Rowley and Lorraine Leeson.
March 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Got my copy! Delighted to have co-authored a chapter in this new volume with Kate Rowley and Lorraine Leeson.
Yesterday my deaf PhD student @arjunshrestha.bsky.social (who is working on Nepali Sign Language morphology) and I met with Sanna Nordlund, a hearing PhD student working on verb directionality in Finnish Sign Language who was visiting @unibirmingham.bsky.social from Helsinki.
March 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yesterday my deaf PhD student @arjunshrestha.bsky.social (who is working on Nepali Sign Language morphology) and I met with Sanna Nordlund, a hearing PhD student working on verb directionality in Finnish Sign Language who was visiting @unibirmingham.bsky.social from Helsinki.
And over 65 million people in Britain cannot speak any Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish, or Scots, nor sign in British Sign Language.
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And over 65 million people in Britain cannot speak any Welsh, Gaelic, Cornish, or Scots, nor sign in British Sign Language.
Excited to have my copy. Delighted to see our work in the reference list. 😊
Great to see how sign language linguistics research can be put to good use!
Congratulations Luigi Lerose!
Great to see how sign language linguistics research can be put to good use!
Congratulations Luigi Lerose!
February 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Excited to have my copy. Delighted to see our work in the reference list. 😊
Great to see how sign language linguistics research can be put to good use!
Congratulations Luigi Lerose!
Great to see how sign language linguistics research can be put to good use!
Congratulations Luigi Lerose!
15 years ago, I survived viral encephalitis: the most frightening illness I’ve ever had. Unlike many, I recovered without major cognitive issues. I’d never really heard of it before I got it, so I’m doing my bit to get the message out there.
#WorldEncephalitisDay @encephalitisint.bsky.social
#WorldEncephalitisDay @encephalitisint.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
15 years ago, I survived viral encephalitis: the most frightening illness I’ve ever had. Unlike many, I recovered without major cognitive issues. I’d never really heard of it before I got it, so I’m doing my bit to get the message out there.
#WorldEncephalitisDay @encephalitisint.bsky.social
#WorldEncephalitisDay @encephalitisint.bsky.social
A photo from yesterday at the graduation of my PhD student: congratulations to Dr Hadjira Ichrak Chérif!
104 years ago this year my pied noir grandmother was born in Algeria and yesterday, my journey with Hadjira from Algeria came to a successful end.
104 years ago this year my pied noir grandmother was born in Algeria and yesterday, my journey with Hadjira from Algeria came to a successful end.
December 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM
A photo from yesterday at the graduation of my PhD student: congratulations to Dr Hadjira Ichrak Chérif!
104 years ago this year my pied noir grandmother was born in Algeria and yesterday, my journey with Hadjira from Algeria came to a successful end.
104 years ago this year my pied noir grandmother was born in Algeria and yesterday, my journey with Hadjira from Algeria came to a successful end.
Good morning Birmingham- it’s coffee time!
December 10, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Good morning Birmingham- it’s coffee time!
Today I learned that Australian possums were named after the American opossum and that the word ‘opossum’ is derived from the Powhatan language - a Native American language from Virginia, USA.
December 8, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Today I learned that Australian possums were named after the American opossum and that the word ‘opossum’ is derived from the Powhatan language - a Native American language from Virginia, USA.
Hmm okay so we’ve extended ‘out of order’ to staircases now?
December 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Hmm okay so we’ve extended ‘out of order’ to staircases now?
I love my new iPhone case by deaf Australian artist Gonketa.
December 5, 2024 at 8:49 AM
I love my new iPhone case by deaf Australian artist Gonketa.
December 1, 2024 at 10:52 AM
See also:
December 1, 2024 at 9:42 AM
See also:
This post suggest James doesn’t understand how adjectives work.
Is there a term for linguistic conspiracy theories?
Is there a term for linguistic conspiracy theories?
November 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM
This post suggest James doesn’t understand how adjectives work.
Is there a term for linguistic conspiracy theories?
Is there a term for linguistic conspiracy theories?
Hello from the University of Birmingham, UK! @artsatbham.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Hello from the University of Birmingham, UK! @artsatbham.bsky.social
My Google Scholar word cloud.
scholargoggler.com
scholargoggler.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM
My Google Scholar word cloud.
scholargoggler.com
scholargoggler.com
Australian trains ‘go to’ while British ones are ‘for’ destinations.
November 14, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Australian trains ‘go to’ while British ones are ‘for’ destinations.
September 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM