31.3606, Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3606. Tue Nov 24 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3606, Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:14:19
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Nils Hjortnaes

 
Hello all,

My name is Nils. My main role here at the LINGUIST List is to work on the new
website (https://new.linguistlist.org/). Last fund drive it hadn’t officially
launched yet, so I’m excited to have it officially up and running, even as we
continue to add to and improve it.
 
Besides working at the LINGUIST List, I am a PhD student at Indiana
University, our host institution. My primary interest, in a very broad sense,
is computational methods for under-resourced languages and language
documentation. I’ve still got a lot of work and a long ways to go before I
even think of defending, but it wouldn’t be possible at all without my job at
the LINGUIST List.

In terms of my life outside academia, my primary hobbies are rock climbing,
fencing, and video games, though current circumstances have forced me to
narrow that down to pretty much just video games, unfortunately. They do a
good job of keeping me sane while I work on projects and classes. I’ve also
been playing violin for 19 years, though I don’t play as much as I’d like
anymore, and I’m fluent in German thanks to attending an immersion elementary
school. I took a class on Danish in college because that’s where my ancestors
came from, but I admittedly don’t speak it very well.

As I mentioned, all of us here at LL are graduate students in Linguistics at
Indiana University. By working here, we get our tuition paid as well as a
small stipend, allowing us to contribute to the community directly while
learning to contribute to the field academically. We are committed to keeping
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