Associate Professor of Linguistics Paul Fallon
Associate Professor of Linguistics Paul D. Fallon gave a virtual presentation at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), held online and at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, on May 6, 2025. His talk was entitled “‘Fire’, ‘nose’, ‘water’, mouth’: Comparing the Leipzig-Jakarta and Swadesh lists in Central Cushitic.” He shared the results of his investigations comparing lexical borrowing using two vocabulary lists in two different time depths for Central Cushitic languages (spoken in the Horn of Africa).
In addition, Fallon has been appointed as one of two Reviews Editors for Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. The first issue under his editorship appeared in mid-June 2025.