Hiking in Hokkaido, when I had more hair.
[The nice plaque to my right says: Please cooperate in carrying home your garbage.]

• Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia
• Research Consultant for the Yinka Dene Language Institute
• Co-Editor, the Northwest Journal of Linguistics

Permanent email address: billposer@alum.mit.edu.
Mail sent to this address is forwarded to wherever I am actually reading my email.

Telephone Numbers

Mailing Address

I write about linguistics at Language Log and occasionally about other topics at my personal blog.

Computational Methods for Linguistic Research

Downloadable Papers and Other Documents

Phonetics Handouts

Software

Poor Man's Web Dictionary

Some Pictures

I have signed the following Statement in Solidarity with Israeli Academics, and strongly urge you to do so:

We are academics, scholars, researchers and professionals of differing religious and political perspectives. We all agree that singling out Israelis for an academic boycott is wrong. To show our solidarity with our Israeli academics in this matter, we, the undersigned, hereby declare ourselves to be Israeli academics for purposes of any academic boycott. We will regard ourselves as Israeli academics and decline to participate in any activity from which Israeli academics are excluded.

My own views are discussed in a bit more detail in this blog entry.

Words to Attend To

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Article 19
• The Beginning of the Free Software Movement
• The Burgess Shale
• Cows With Guns
• The Demoronizer
• Evolution Library
• First Nations Languages of British Columbia
• The Free Software Foundation
• Freshmeat
• The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War
• Groklaw [Everything about SCO's anti-Linux campaign]
• Hall of Ma'at
• How'd They Vote (Canadian Parliament)
• Inzana Lake Lodge
• Ken Hale In Memoriam
• Liars for Jesus
• LinuxLinks
• Maher Arar: An Innocent Man Kidnapped and Tortured by the United States and Syria
• Math World
• The Open Data Format Initiative
• Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
• Tom Volk's Fungi Page
• The Tree of Life
• Treacherous Computing
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• What Al Gore Actually Said about the Internet
• Why You Shouldn't Send People (Including Me) HTML email
• Why You Shouldn't Send People (Including Me) Microsoft Word Documents
• The Widget Company
  They sell the hard-to-find pins that hold up the shelves in bookcases of the kind one buys in kit form from IKEA and Scandinavian Designs.
• Yinka Dene Language Institute
• Yellow Hat GNU/Linux

• Countries I have visited
• Canadian Provinces and Territories I have visited
• US States I have visited

Revised: 2008-05-11